Chewing the Fat from Grocery Stores
Have you taken out a loan on a pound of ground beef lately? Maybe amortized your latest pot of chili over the next 25 years?
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The Cousin Trip, Part Two
We now know that populist Hungarian President Viktor Orban was swept out of office after sixteen years. My cousin BA and I were due to arrive in Budapest the day after the election. As our flight drew closer, Orban was talking about trying to cancel voting and there were widespread protests. It looked anything but calm in the country’s capital.
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The Grandmother Land
There’s a strange phenomenom when you come home from a big trip. At a certain point you wonder, did that really happen? Thank goodness there are photographs to prove my seventeen days in three countries were all real.
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Away We Go! Odchodzimy!
It’s finally here! I’ve dreamed about going to Poland since I was a little girl. And now I’m going with the other person in my life who had the same dream, my cousin (and great friend) Barbara Anne.
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The Healing Power of Taking Responsibility
It’s puzzling to many of us why the obvious isn’t the norm. For example, why don’t they teach how to do personal taxes in school? And why don’t people who commit crimes and claim to be sorry, say those words to their victim?
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The Newest Trick in the Book
It was only a matter of time. A book has been pulled from publication because it’s suspected to have been written by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Stress Buying and Super Shipping are Here
Last week, I (grudgingly) ordered something small from Amazon after being unable to find it locally. Something new popped up as I was checking out.
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A Bit of This and That
There’s been talk online about the way fiction readers sometimes harass authors because they’re anxious for their next book.
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When Paradise Turns Nightmarish
Beautiful Puerto Vallarta, Bucerias and so many other lovely places I visited with Erin Davis in January. All torn up because of retaliatory violence. It began with the death of a cartel leader at the hands (or the guns) of military police.
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An Ongoing Search for Truth Part II
My morning rounds of news providers includes a couple that skew far right-wing. In case you’re unaware, that’s not quite the opposite of what I am, but it’s in that direction. I’d call myself centre-left wing. I’m more like Mark Carney than far-left leaning Justin Trudeau.
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To Tell (and share) the Truth
Just before the holidays, it happened again. I’m supposed to know better but I still got caught by a fake social media post.
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It’s Easier to Give the Shirt Off Your Back
We’ve all heard the cliche: one person’s junk is another person’s treasure. Like most cliches, it’s rooted in truth. Just ask my thrift store loving husband.
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