Month: February 2007
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Silly advice columnists
Relationship columns flabbergast me. One after another columnist fails to apply to relationships the same pragmatic advice they would extend in any other situation. Dennie Hughes in her Relationtips column offered the most idiotic response to a 28-year-old who intended to remain a virgin until she married. She wrote asking if her friends were right…
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less cash, more kid time
My neighbor fell so deeply in love that she no longer wanted to work – she wanted to spend all day, every day, with the new guy in her life – her baby boy.This was not what she and her husband had originally planned. They expected her to miss only a couple of months from…
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Mail time
Standing in the line at the U.S. Post Office provides a little bit too much time viewing their tempting new lines of stamps. Nonetheless there I stood a couple weeks ago perusing the newest offerings when I found it – the perfect Valentine’s day stamp – a red heart of ‘Love’ in front of a…
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throwing cash at a crisis
Headlines of problems and tragedies generate cries for piles of cash to fix everything – now! Throwing cash around generates good feelings, but follow-up reports reveal a different reality. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, caravans of house trailers quickly headed south for the thousands of families left homeless … only to hit a traffic jam…