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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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Perfect Vision: A View on the Cost of Health Care
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” — Arabic Proverb Aside from my annual checkup, I can’t remember the last time I got sick or went to the doctor. For the most part, I think my sturdy midwestern make-up keeps me in good health so the health “topic” has…
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Recipe: Clutter2Cash’s Kale & Kielbasa Soup
So far we have received kale with each organic vegetable delivery. Luckily I have found a recipe for kale that LaLa actually likes. It’s based on my mother’s delicious Kale & Sausage Soup recipe but I tweaked it for no good reason other than I can’t even leave a damn fine recipe alone (honestly we…
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Time Out From Work
“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — William Blake I’ve written before about taking a sabbatical. I’ve never really had a break from working. Working in technology, I’ve been pink-slipped a few times over the last ten years. But even then I usually saw the…
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