Author: Nina
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Diet Pepsi: The Cost of Consumption
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” — Vernon Howard Jeanine and I went to the Newport Beach Film Festival this weekend. One of the screenings was a documentary about the plight of Central American immigrants as they travel thousands of miles through Mexico to reach…
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Lesbian Dates: Who Pays?
“Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?” — Rita Rudner Yesterday, T.L. Stanley, a female entertainment writer for the LA Times veered off into the personal finance genre with her article entitled: People First, Unless It’s a First Date. The article centered…
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Invest Like A Movie Producer
“I don’t know how brilliant we were, but we were very enthusiastic about movies and the chance to make them.” — Francis Ford Coppola On Sunday, Kathy Kristof wrote an article entitled: Producing an Investing Strategy that’s Boffo. I’m so out of synch with the Hollywood scene that I had to look up the definition…
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Overdue: Saving Money at the Library
“Keep company with the rich and you’ll end up picking up the tab every time.” — Anonymous Since I’ve been publishing Queercents, I’m amused when friends make assumptions about me: but perception is not always reality. Example: last night, we were chatting with our housing partners (the guys) about their stay at the house in…
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God and Money: Lesbians Go To Church
“He is risen, he is not here.” — Mark 16:6 Jeanine and I went to church yesterday… it was an Easter thing. Church is always a strange experience for me because as adults, neither of us has been faithful to a particular belief. Jeanine was raised Catholic and I attended an Assemblies of God church…
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Caught Up in Real Estate Fever
“Successful people turn everyone who can help them into sometime mentors.” — John Crosby With my real estate investments, I’ve practiced the buy and hold strategy. This is something that I learned from my oldest sister with her rental properties. She owns several in their midwestern town and as a stay-at-home mom; she doubles as…
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Jim Cramer Will Never Be A Gay Icon
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de St. Exupery Even with all the filters available, I still receive a lot of email spam. As you might suspect, most begin with “Hey bro” but lately I’ve been getting the kind…
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Seduced by Adjustable Rate Loans & Teaser Rates
“Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.” — French Proverb Here’s the sad story of the day. “We were having a hard time meeting bills at the time we refinanced. It seems once you get behind, you do desperate things to catch up, and you never do,” says Lorraine, trying to hold back tears. “At the time…
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Housing Bubble and Affordability
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” — Albert Camus Michael Mandel recently wrote a commentary for BusinessWeek about the housing bubble entitled: Think of It As a Return to Normal. He believes there’s a “good chance that real estate will follow a similar path as the stock and tech…
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Gambling: Gays Don’t Own This Addiction
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand I’m heading off to Las Vegas for an industry conference and trade show. Five days of meetings followed by four nights of hanging out at the casinos. To some, this is…
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