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Tiny Houses And New Old Ideas
Wow! Someone mailed me an actual letter, and it isn’t even Christmas. The someone (Steve Smolinsky, ace EOS consultant, and an excellent candidate to advise the US Postal Service on how to improve), sent me a real world clipping from … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Boom, Cold War, consulting, Cultus Bay, Curbed, entrepreneur, Freeland, frugal, frugality, housing, Langley, Olympic Mountains, personal finance, Puget Sound, Simple Living, Steve Smolinsky, sustainability, Tiny Houses, USPS, Whidbey
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Fresh Idea – Dockside Tidal Power
Fresh ideas come along that might be worth a lot or a little; and some should be launched into the world because they may be needed now and shouldn’t wait for me to develop them fully. Sometimes, ideas have to … Continue reading
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Tagged entrepreneur, fresh idea, fresh ideas, innovation, inventions, Puget Sound, Sandy Hook, tidal power, WCLT, Whidbey Island
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Thinking About Quakes And Tsunamis
The outside expert gets the most attention. Within the last few days, an article was published in the New Yorker that described the possible impacts of a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Suddenly, the earthquake possibility is a topic … Continue reading
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Tagged Axial Seamount, Cascadia Fault, Curbed, earthquakes, frugal, frugality, Juan de Fuca plate, mortgage, Mt. Rainier, photos, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, Seattle, Simple Living, tsunamis, Whidbey, writing
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Recovery Chorus
My world is changing, yet much remains the same. Good news arrived, unconstrained, without need for qualification. More good news is expected, equally unburdened. My prelude to optimism is being followed by an opening chorus of a significant jump in … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, foreclosure, GERN, HCLE, housing, mortgage, Pacific NorthWet, personal finance, poverty, Puget Sound, recovery, RSOL, Salish Sea, Seattle, Sequim, stocks, student loans, Whidbey, writing
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Maritime Ties
My condolences to those people who have birthdays close to Christmas. It is so easy for them to miss out on gifts. I, however, am lucky enough to have my birthday in January; which means that whatever I didn’t get … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday, Christmas, dancing, Family, gifts, investing, knots, Merchant Marine, Merchant Marine Veterans, personal finance, Puget Sound, sailing, Salish Sea, shipping lanes, stocks, Whidbey
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What Me Worry
Yep. I live over an earthquake fault, have to drive through a tsunami zone to get home, am within about a hundred miles of three large volcanoes, and live on an island that is only tied to the mainland by … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, FEMA, global warming, ice shelf, Mt. Rainier, preparedness, Puget Sound, Rainier Mountaineering, RMI, tsunami, Whidbey Island, Wonderland Trail
