You’ve been leaving a number witty comments on your friend’s Facebook statuses. You find your own comments funny enough to laugh out loud at them. Your friend’s friends like your snappy comebacks on your mutual friend’s posts. And these friends of friends have thought highly enough of your wit to like them. Perhaps your comments…
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Gratitude is More than a One Day Affair | Thanksgiving
I have so much to be thankful for it’s hard to pack it into just one day. Upon waking Thanksgiving morning I had the first item for which to be thankful. I am alive! The aroma of fresh brewed coffee. The sun kissing the horizon. Hearing “good morning” from people I love. So much to…
New Plan to Add Jobs to Economy: Must be Scissors Capable
In a new attempt to grow the economy and get more of our unemployed back to work a member of the Treasury Department has proposed moving more citizens to warmer climes of the country. Here, they say will be a greater demand for barbers for all those with faster growing hair. With this greater demand…
Tax Cuts – Are They for Everyone?
Fresh off their election day victories the Republicans are puffing out their chests and looking for another round of fresh wins. They have their sights set on extending the Bush tax cuts that expire in January, especially those for the wealthy. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have said…
Adventures Traveling Around the World – Culture Matters
What’s true and beholden in one culture may be disdained and cast aside in another. Take for instance the western world’s embrace of youth. In many Asian cultures, age and seniority are honored. Culture Matters Gary Arndt makes the point that our notion of “rescuing other countries all depend on them having similar incentives, values…
Adventures Traveling Around the World – Traveling Doesn’t Have to be Expensive.
The economy is distressed. Unemployment is stuck near 10%. Congress is mired in inaction. There’s not an extra penny in your weekly budget. What a great time to travel overseas! “Traveling doesn’t have to be expensive.” If your tastes include five star hotels and you insist on staying in one then your travel will be…
Adventures Traveling Around the World – You Don’t Need a Lot of Stuff.
How much stuff do you have? Need? Do you use it all? Or do you have it just to make yourself feel “full”? When Gary Arndt switched from a 3,000 square foot house to a backpack before taking off for a three plus years around the world tour he said it, “was a lesson in…
Adventures Traveling Around the World – The Rest of the World isn’t Full of Germs
Going on an international travel journey? OK, let’s see… Vaccinations – check. Bottled water – check. Industrial supply of hand sanitizer – check. “The Rest of the World isn’t Full of Germs” Have we gone too far in our species quest to remain “germ free”? Washing, scrubbing, sanitizing, antibacterializing. Each night our kitchen is so…
