For book lovers, seekers, health enthusiasts and thinkers
I did something yesterday I haven’t done in a long time: I relaxed and did nothing. Around ten o’clock yesterday morning I laid in the sun for half an hour to produce melanin and vitamin D. Several of my cats joined me but the sun was too hot, so they settled in the shade. It [...]
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I frequent a restaurant in town where I receive excellent service from my waiter, Marshall. We’ve talked many times about health and nutrition. I usually order a Caeser salad and Marshall tells me how much he loves meat. I warn him about it, but he doesn’t care. He’s young. In the past few years I’ve [...]
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Jamie has called and left several messages for me to call back, so I returned his call on Thursday. He’s with Chase Bank that holds my second mortgage. He’s concerned that I’m behind on my house payments, and he wants to see what he can do to help me get caught up. I explained to [...]
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In a previous post (Inflation: Why Your Dollar Just Doesn’t Buy As Much) I posted two videos from YouTube about money and inflation. I was so intrigued by those videos that I bought a couple books to learn more. In this post I would like to discuss the claims made in the first video that [...]
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My friend Polly did a remarkable thing. She saved money and took time off work to educate herself so she could improve her marketability. In five years she earned a Masters degree in communication. Actually, the Bachelors degree took four years and the Masters one. When she first told me she was going back to [...]
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Green bell peppers are unripe red bell peppers, and as such are not recommended. Fruit should be eaten only when ripe as the acids have been converted to healthy fruit sugar, which is easily assimilated by the body. One cup of raw red bell pepper provides your daily requirement for vitamins C and A. However, [...]
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I’m came across an article today about a couple that killed themselves and their four golden retrievers: “It is believed that the Donacas committed suicide after attempts to save their home following a foreclosure notice left them believing they had few options,” the Crook County Sheriff’s Office said in a report. Before I decided to [...]
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I decided to do some more research on the money issue that I’ve been writing about. I’d like to better understand inflation and how our nation got so grossly into debt. So I ordered and have started reading The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free. [...]
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When I was in my early twenties living in Germany working as a civil servant I bought a lot of nice things to pad my nest. I got Noritake crystal and china at prices half of what I would pay in the States. It made me feel special. I bought expensive figurines for my shelves [...]
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When I first considered filing bankruptcy, I felt guilty about the idea of not honoring my debt. But when I added up how much I was paying in interest and how much I was getting to keep to eat, entertain myself, save for the future (that would be ZERO), and pay down my mortgage, I [...]
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