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GAIA – One Company One Story
Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series.This time, Gaia (previously known as Gaiam). Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am not … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative lifestyle, frugal, frugality, GAIA, Gaiam, investing, personal finance, Real Goods, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, stocks, sustainability
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Popular Posts 2022
Another year. Another period of posting; but the ten most popular posts are all from before 2022. Why? MicroVision. MicroVision’s 2021 was such a story that it dominated this blogs traffic, including previous years’ MicroVision posts as people researched the … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, health care, health insurance, healthcare, HoloLens, housing, inventions, investing, Mental Health, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, Re-retirement, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, stocks, sustainability, tidal power
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2040-ish
It is funny how things happen. Actually, we need a new phrase because a coincidence of topics recently arrived that I find thoughtful, but not funny. My sci-fi novel, Firewatcher, is set at least a couple of decades from now. … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, assumptions, digital singularity, Dream. Invest. Live., Earth Overshoot Day, economy, finance, Firewatcher, government, investing, mortgage, MVIS, overpopulation, personal finance, Pretending Not To Panic, stocks, sustainability, wealth
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Affordable And Unaffordable Housing
(WA state required disclosure: I’m a broker at Dalton Realty, Inc. http://whidbeyrealtor.com/). My house’s tax assessment came in today. Yesterday I was part of a group meeting about affordable housing in one of your local tourist towns: Langley. A month … Continue reading
Five Years Later 2016-2021
I missed my cue! Five years and one month ago I wrote a post about what life could be like five years later, September 2021. Let’s have fun tearing apart my own predictions. (Allow me to remind you and me … Continue reading
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Tagged #LearnFromHome, #WorkFromHome, artists, community, commuting, coworks, decentralized, ferry, frugality, Great Recession, Great Resignation, housing, infrastructure, learn from home, personal finance, real estate, remote work, rural distancing, sustainability, tourism, wealth, Whidbey, Whidbey Telecom, work from home
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Charitably Truckless
I felt odd, watching no-longer-my truck be driven away. Today I donated my venerable Chevy pickup to a local charity. Whidbey Island has an impressive organic farm school appropriately named the Organic Farm School. (Fancy, eh? At least it isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Chevrolet, Chevy, community, donations, Jeep, Organic Farm School, organic farming, philanthropy, Pickup, sustainability, Whidbey Island
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Getting Better Slowly
Yay! Good news! Getting the loan on my house means a long string of long-delayed tasks can get done. Ah. What? A loan doesn’t equate to money in my account, which doesn’t translate to immediately paying off lots of bills, … Continue reading
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Tagged community, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, investing, optimism, personal finance, pessimism, stocks, sustainability
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Popular Posts in 2020
Oh, what a year it was. Some of the topics I wrote about where: Politics, a pandemic, wildfires, storms, floods, changes in a social structure (including social media), health care, health insurance, Social Security, tea, writing, science fiction, real estate, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, community, floods, food, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, health insurance, kindness, pandemic, politics, real estate, recovery, rural life, science fiction, shop local, Social Security, storms, sustainability, taxes, tea, wildfires, work from home, writing
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What Did You See
I gave up playing Bridge. Bridge was one of the few card games my family would play as a family, well four of the five of us at a time, of course. We played it as a game. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged community, injustice, personal finance, politics, sustainability
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Challenging A Fundamental Assumption
A common response many have in retrospect; The Soviet Union will live forever. Of course it didn’t. Africa shattered into even more nations after the colonizers left. Naturally. The European Union may no longer be a union. Well, it never … Continue reading
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Tagged Cascadia, coronavirus, personal finance, politics, sustainability, Western States Pact
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