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A Home-Made Holiday
4Th of July weekend is coming up in the U.S where we celebrate our freedoms realized through sacrifices made by the patriots who whooped the british, by eating BBQ’d meals, going on vacations and watching fireworks. It is also the time of the year when people will get wonderful sunburns for the summer. A few…
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Amazing Race: Gay Women Encouraged to Apply
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.” — Camille Paglia I love reading about successful women, so I always look forward to the annual list from POWER UP that ranks 10 Amazing Gay…
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GLBT Retirement Living
Surfgirl and I discuss semi-regularly where we would like to live and retire to. It’s a toss up between the Gulf coast and the Atlantic coast. We go back and forth and then we totally mess ourselves up when she suggests that we should just live in an RV and go to both coasts or…
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Easy Button
“Anything simple always interests me.” — David Hockney I met a guy at the Madrid airport while waiting to board my flight to London. My typical rule of thumb is never to engage in conversation while en route. I find it distracting and airplane time is my reading time. Although my guard softens when standing…
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Corporate Sponsorship
While I’m traveling this week, Madame X over at My Open Wallet wrote a gay-friendly column today and said I could re-post it here for the queers. Read below… this is why everyone loves the Madame! This past Sunday was New York’s Gay Pride Parade. (Ok, it’s really the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender parade…
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Reduce Weight, Increase Money
If you look at the picture on the left, which plate would you chose to eat your meal with? On the left side is a larger plate and cup and on the right is a smaller plate and cup. If you chose the plate and cup on the left, you chose the serving size of…
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Virtual Wealth
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Confucius There’s an advertising campaign running right now that promotes the web site: LoanToLearn. I have not actually heard the commercial since I’ve only seen it on the volume-less television set at the gym. But the URL was enough to make me go…
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Saving with Paper Coins
Let me ask you a question and answer truthfully to yourself. If you were shopping and found 25 cents, 50 cents or a dollar on the ground, would you pick it up? How about if you had a quarter in your pocket that was dirty, sticky and could hardly make out that it was a…
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McMansions Creating Neighborhood Stir
“When you get there, you’ve arrived.” — New York Times headline in 1971 referring to Greenwich, CT It seems that McMansions are still a hot topic these days. Recently, Jeff Collins at the Orange County Register reported, “For sale: modern Corona del Mar (Newport Beach) beauty, featuring state-of-the art electronics, a water treatment system, three…
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Eat Healthy, Reduce Health Care
Though it isn’t 100% foolproof that you will be healthy all your life. You certainly can assist in keeping your body from deteriorating. Have you seen those hospital bills lately? They are horrendous and God help you if you have no insurance. Of course if you don’t have insurance, it is even more important that…
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