economy

Monday Thoughts on Money, Capitalism and Morality

04.09.2012

And when did the fact of being successful in business become such a vaunted American trait?

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Election 2010: The Rant

10.31.2010

Protest voters. “Throw the bums out. Anyone but someone who’s in office.” You’re the ones who voted for Ralph Nader and got us instead George Bush. Thanks a bunch.

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What The Stars Told Oprah

10.04.2010

Have you been to ThirdAge.com yet?  This is my latest–okay, and first–article for them… When Teri Hatcher got home from a recent Desperate Housewives photo shoot, what struck her most after she’d washed her face and hair was the difference between what she saw in the mirror, the person she knows herself to be, and [...]

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I’m Not Selling My Soul–Just Trying to Keep MidLifeBloggers Going

09.19.2010

I’m stuck in a house worth about $150K less than what I paid for it in a neighborhood that is superb for families with small children, but for those of us who are single women of a certain age–not so much.

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The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets

08.23.2010

Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

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The Weekly Rant: Target in the Bullseye, again

08.13.2010

Here’s what’s P-ing me O, frosting my hide, and generally adding to my disgruntlement this week. Target: Yes, again. I made a trip to Target in Elk Grove yesterday because I needed (a) knickers, and (b) Benadryl. Yes, despite the fact that just last week, I vowed never to darken Target’s door again, which followed [...]

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Pink-slipped in Midlife: Who do you turn to?

09.30.2009

Here she was — the latest in the string of middle-aged women laid off, retired, let go, fired, since the economy nose-dived last year.

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How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For

08.27.2009

The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace because the world has gotten more complex and interdependent.

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Making Art, Blogging and the Economy

04.15.2009

Some days it is all I can do to get through the news and the talk shows, even those with positive, grit-your-teeth, coupon-clip, saving-not-spending stories. But I’m trying to follow all the advice…

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MidLife Suicides: Blaming The Victim?

10.24.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife There’s a startling and rather depressing discussion going on at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast over the American Journal of Preventative Medicine’s newly released study on baby boomers and suicide: [B]etween 1999 and 2005, the suicide rate lept by 3.9 percent among white women aged 40 to 64, and [...]

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