Author: Nina
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Last Word in Retirement
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert Paschal, a 90-year-old gentleman in Bishop, CA recently wrote a letter to Fortune in response to their Retirement issue. He offers his list of retirement ideas for non-billionaires:
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Gas Gap: Americans at the Pump
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.” — Eli Khamarov TIME recently reported that, “Energy costs have risen 31% at an annual rate so far in 2006. That ripples through the rest of the economy, showing up as fuel surcharges on services like airline tickets (up 7.9% so far this year) and…
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Concerts & Disposable Income
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.” — Barbra Streisand Jeanine has been on a bit of a concert-buying binge… Saturday night we saw Seal; September is Cheryl Crow with John Mayer and in November: we see the diva of all divas —…
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LGBT Community Buying Abroad
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.” — C. Wright Mills In the last six years, we’ve…
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Global Warming & Lesbians Want Air Conditioning
“While human-induced global warming is not going to turn present-day Earth into present-day Mars, global warming is dire enough that our most distinguished scientists recently concluded that as many as 1 million species on the planet could be extinct by 2050 if affairs do not change.” — Jay Inslee When Jeanine and I moved into…
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Gays & Vacation Homes: Weekends in Palm Springs
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom…for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” — William Blake Our experience this last year with owning a home in Palm Springs made Jeanine and I realize that we don’t want to own a second/vacation home at this…
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Money Blogger Podcast
“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they’d be my best friend.” — Judith Guest Scott over at Money Blogger Podcast interviewed me this week for his money podcasting series. Scott has a pleasant NPR voice and friendly interview style… he could be the next host of…
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Coming Out: Smart Money Advice
“Honesty is when there is harmony in what you think, say, and do.” – Gerald G Jampolsky I stumbled upon this little gem by Peter Berkery at PlanetOut. “It may seem like strange financial-planning advice, but one of the most important things you can do to help achieve your financial goals is to come out…
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New Car Smell
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three – and paradise is when you have none.” — Doug Larson As a rule of thumb, we try to keep our two-car garage clean enough to actually park two cars in it. Whenever the space becomes…
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