Author: Nina
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Prevent Foreclosure — Dial the Lender
“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.” — Fran Lebowitz According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, there are 167,000 new families entering foreclosure every three months. Lew Sichelman wrote an article that appeared in the LA Times a few weeks ago about how the mortgage…
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Creating Intentional Communities in Retirement
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.” — Ernest Hemingway The baby boomers are making people think differently about retirement. Mitch Anthony in the New Retirementality explains that, “Most people don’t really want retirement as we know it. What they want is freedom to pursue their own goals and interests.” “When people talk today…
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Money & Relationships
“Money is not something we ever discuss. Talk of money is like speaking of bodily functions at the dinner table.” — Novelist Elizabeth George in A Traitor to Memory In case you didn’t notice, we changed the weekly interview format at Queercents. Over the past months, I learned that people are willing to talk about…
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Straight Talk about Viatical Settlements
“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross To be honest, until researching for this post, I never knew much about viatical settlements. Sure, I’ve seen the advertisements over the years about…
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Ten Money Questions for Dan Savage
Dan Savage writes a nationally syndicated sex-advice column called “Savage Love” that is read by more than 4 million people each week. Sex is the juicy part, but often times, financial compatibility can be just as significant in the success of a relationship. I asked Dan a few questions about money, couples and kids. 1.…
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Gay Men and Keeping Up Appearances
Today a guest post… and a different perspective than what you typically hear from the four lesbians at Queercents: My name is JJ Jordan. I’m a twenty-something gay guy in Houston, Texas, who has been publishing a popular blog for several years. I, like most of my friends, have spent most of my Friday –…
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Equal Pay for Equal Work
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” — Abigail Adams If you happened to catch any the US Open this year, then you know that, “U.S. Open…
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Queerspawn: One Blogger’s Reflections
“The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family.” — Pat Robertson James from Dual Income No Kids is a straight, married man that writes with his wife, Miel. When we launched Queercents, they were one of the first personal finance…
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How to Retire Rich on a Teacher’s Salary
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward Yesterday, the LA Times printed a story about an ex-teacher that left her fortune to her school district. They write, “A woman (in Davison, Michigan) who spent 29 years as a teacher and counselor at…
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Ten Money Questions for Rob Delamater
Rob Delamater is the founder of Lost Art Salon in San Francisco. Lost Art Salon is an eclectic collection of original period paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics with a particular emphasis on newly-discovered artists from the Early and Mid 20th Century. Rob Delamater and his business partner, Gaetan Caron, search out one-of-a-kind pieces that exhibit…
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