You can’t watch a news cycle these days and not see some news story about weather extremes – both here in the US and around the world. There have been record high temperatures in London, with daytime highs well over 100 degrees. Extreme drought in the American Southwest has caused the water level in Lake Mead to drop to its lowest levels since 1937, revealing dead bodies (stuffed in oil drums) and long lost hulls of boats that were disposed…
July and August are terrible months for me, financially speaking. Not only are my annual property taxes and home/car insurance bills due, but it’s also time for me to man up and pay out the semi-annual tuition bills from my daughters’ institutes of higher learning. For those of you with younger children who are thinking about their college futures, I have three words of advice. Start saving now. Seriously. I had the good sense to open up 529 college funds…
Remember the good ‘’ol days of television? When one could only get three (free) network channels (maybe four, if you counted PBS) on that small, 15-inch TV set with the rabbit ear antenna sitting in the corner of the living room? What should we watch tonight, honey? Well, there are only four choices – pick one. In the early 1970’s that meant Telly Savalas as “Kojak” on CBS, James Garner starring in “The Rockford Files” on NBC, or we could…
Happy Independence Day, everyone! July, 4th, 1776 was a momentous day in our history, and we celebrate it annually with parades, cook-outs, vacation weekends and of course, fireworks. It’s hard to believe that’s it’s been 246 years since the thirteen colonies declared their Independence from the English Crown. In just four short years, we’ll be celebrating another milestone. Our Semiquincentennial, or 250 years of independence. I hate to be a party-pooper, but that seems like that will be hard to…