Month: February 2000

It’s my daughter’s fault that he have one of those new fangled phones without any cords. I figured if I could go through my teen years stretching the phone cord into the nearest closet for privacy, so could she. She didn’t agree. She begged, pleaded and whined for a phone in her room. I refused.…

He wrote an impressive computer open source program that grabs information off the Internet. It pleased someone somewhere so much that they offered him an opportunity to participate in an IPO (initial public offering of stock) of a technical company. With two kids he doesn’t have a lot of spare cash, but he did have…

“Every parent thinks their estate will be distributed as they would have wanted after they are gone,” the attorney said at a seminar I attended recently, “but things don’t always turn out that way.” Her words brought back keen memories of the days following my grandmother’s funeral 18 years ago. As my parents and aunt…

The Boys Scouts are responsible for year of our family feasting on popcorn. Years ago, when my first stepson entered Cub Scouts, he brought home 20, 5-pound sacks of yellow or white kernel popcorn he was to sell to help fund the troop’s yearly activities. His troop had a direct connection with a local popcorn…