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The Money Code: A Review and a $25 Giveaway

01.16.2013

I deal with money issues in my life either not at all or with lightening speed and minimal consideration. I know this about myself and I know, chapter and verse, how my bank balance, life style and peace of mind have suffered.

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Dear Citibank or Lessons in Customer Service

10.23.2012

This is just a small side story of my epic battle to get $130 back from Citibank Visa. I’d like to go into detail but space and mental health is limited.

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Romney & Ryan or Obama & Biden: Which America Do We Want?

08.13.2012

This is probably the clearest choice election there has ever been between where the right-wing of the Republican Party wants to take it and where Democrats are. I think it’s time to have this debate

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The Real Cost of Denying Same Sex Marriage

07.24.2012

Tell me that same sex marriage has any impact on heterosexual marriage, and I’ll tell you, baloney.  Tell me that the marriage part of the equation isn’t necessary because same sex unions have the same rights and privileges as heterosexuals do, and I say, hmmmmm, is that really true? No, actually, it’s not.  Have a [...]

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Walking Manhattan: Wall Street or Canal Street?

07.06.2012

Once out of the subway, I knew I was in the right place. Lots of suits, starched white shirts, street vendors selling power ties,
men having power breakfasts at every corner, a big Brooks Brothers store, plus a huge police presence. American Express, Chase, JP Morgan, Moody’s– all the signs spelled Financial District.

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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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