A couple days ago, as I was driving between a couple of clients I looked up and saw this: It's just a pair of shoes, hanging on some wires. The street is Harrison, just north of downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. I've seen scenes like this before but never understood...
One reason we don't change our habits and become more frugal and thrifty is it seems like to big of a change. This weeks Monday Money is about taking small steps. There are times when a major step needs to occur, like if you are spending more than you are earning and...
As I write at this moment, I have an earbud in my left ear as I listen to the live feed from CBS News as they talk about the shooting at a grade school with 26 or more fatalities including 18 children. Twitter is alive with comments from people who are shocked and...
I scheduled this article to appear at 12:12pm on 12-12-12. Often we look at dates and events with special significance. My son married on 10-10-10. No, it wasn't at 10:10. Actually he told us that they were legally married on Friday 10-8-10 at the courthouse since...
from my 2010 archives: December. You know, the month when the fat guy comes down the chimney... and something else comes in the pet door:
Last week I was having a conversation with several Fort Wayne Twitter friends about coffee shops which inspired me to write today's Monday Money article. Caffeine is our topic today. It was a dozen years ago that my soon-to-be-wife introduced me to the local coffee...
Since I wrote this, I've updated our phone service again. Read about it here. Week 3 in this Monday Money series has to do with saving $912 per year on our cellphone bill. A dozen years ago we became a cellphone family. I inherited my mom's Tracphone when she passed...
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was reading some posts from one of my old websites and found this from 2007: A lecture about English: A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In...
Two different topics in one article today. Comedy isn't always pretty. But it doesn't have to include references to sex organs, sexual activities, or sexual preferences. CBS has taken the low road on too many of their comedies including Two Broke Girls, Mike and Molly...