Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Today Is Boss's Day
...in America, anyway. I took my bosses to breakfast this morning, and bought one of them (the one who could not make breakfast) a European garden basket. I have really great bosses, and I'm glad to honor them a bit on this day. I wonder, though, about people who happen to have crummy bosses. What...
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Wasps and Other Evil Stinging Things
(With thanks to whoever's post it was that I read a few minutes ago and was inspired by...) I seem to be a target for vicious, stinging insects. I don't understand it. Frankly, I try to avoid the nasty, evil creatures whenever I know they are about. I remember being chased by paper wasps when I was...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Blessed Rain!
It has been overcast and rainy in Memphis for the past three days. It's wonderful. We have been in a state of drought for so very, very long. And now we've had nearly a week of off-and-on, gentle, soaking rain. It's very cool today. I could almost believe it was autumn. After several weeks of...
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Another Legend Is Dead
Madeline L'Engle is dead at the age of 88. I LOVED Madeline L'Engle. Her books introduced me to the realm of fantasy and science fiction. A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, The Arm of the Starfish... I grew up with Meg and Charles Wallace, Sandy and Dennys, Polyhymnia, and the...
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Luciano Pavarotti e morto.
I cannot believe it. Pavarotti is the first opera singer I ever heard. I fell in love with his amazing voice and the depth of emotion he could convey with the smallest, shortest note. He was amazing. Wonderful. Sort of an icon in my life. Like your parents, your icons are not ever supposed to die....
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The Best in the Country? I Dunno ...
Front-page on MSN today is an article purporting to list the ten best donut shops in America. Of course, it has the standard disclaimer about this being the author's opinion based on his experience. But the sub-headline states that the author "scoured the country" looking for the best donuts ever. I...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Rents Are Rising
(Thanks to Success Warrior for the inspiration....) I work in the multifamily housing sector, and one of the things that people don't seem to realize is that when property taxes go up, so does rent. When interest rates rise, rent goes up because the cost of property financing goes up. (And there are...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Able Was I ...
We recently learned that my mother's family is related to Napoleon Bonaparte through his youngest brother Jerome, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, MD. Their son who was the progenitor of the Bonaparte line in America. Interestingly, Napoleon disapproved of the marriage and ordered his...
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Motivation and Fears
Success Warrior ahs posed yet another very thought-provoking question in his financial blog. What motivates you? And, as a corollary to another line of thought that he's tracking, what do you think about the coming economic recession? Motivation: well, I have these photographs on my desk that are my...
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Friday, August 17, 2007
So Very Sad
I just read about the second disaster in the Utah mining tragedy. How awful! It's just so sad that these people who were working so hard to save the trapped miners were killed and injured. My heart goes out to the families, both of the trapped miners and of the casualties of the rescue efforts. I...
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