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Making Memories
The last card has been opened, the gift-wrappings relegated to the trash and there are no more cookies in the tin. Christmas 2008 is over…but what is left?
The best part of the holidays; the memories.
Even when time passes and you can’t remember what all the gifts were or what you ate for your holiday […]
Investing for the Recovery
Recently I’ve recommended two types of funds that offer attractive risk-reward profiles in the beaten down stock market: buy/write closed-end funds selling at around 75 cents on the dollar and convertible bonds that have defensive characteristics – particularly now, when they are largely priced on their fixed income characteristics, not their […]
Hopefully by this time you are well into getting your writing started and have begun to think about things that are not as basic as knowing where to start or how to find your voice. This piece shares some thoughts on dealing with the passage of time.
5) Bridging Time
Great stories can have events presented in […]
Thursday the 1st: Happy New Year! Today marks the start of the International Year of Astronomy. It celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s first use of the telescope as an astronomical instrument. Until that point it was used for spotting incoming ships at sea and invading forces rising over hillsides. Instead, Galileo pointed the […]
Many years ago as a college journalist (at Columbia Junior College), I wrote an article describing the holiday season as a time of gluttony, drunkenness, sacrilege, unholy hilarity, and the slander of wives, sisters, brothers, and any one else who was not present at holiday dinners.
I was not fond of holidays in those days.
Being married […]
