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Why I Stopped my Kids’ Allowance
We need to teach our children about money and how it works, partly to curb their short term demands on us, but mainly for their own long term benefit. When I was growing up, the usual parental tactic was to … Continue reading
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Tagged allowance, charity, Debt, Donate, Invest, Kids, Money, Pocket Money, Save, Spend
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Tips up at the Keystone Resort, Colorado
First Time Skiing for all the Family I’m not sure what just happened, but this feels like a good time to pause for reflection and appreciate the view. A swathe of pines, sharply defined in monochrome, separates the distant haze of … Continue reading
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Tagged altitude sickness, Colorado, Family, First time, Keystone, Kids, ski instructor, ski school, ski trip, Skiing, snow fort, Tips Up, tubing
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Two to Do in Boston
This year we decide to spend Thanksgiving in Boston. The Floridians don’t react to this idea with the same incredulity that they did to Thanksgiving in Houston or going to Arizona in July, but we are warned that, in contrast to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1935, acoustics, autumnal colors, Blue Man Group, Boston, Boston Tea Party, Charles Playhouse, Christan Science Monitor, Christian Science, cold weather, distortion, earplugs, family friendly, Faneuil Hall, Floridians, Geographical perspective, globe, Las Vegas, Library, Mapparium, Mary Baker Eddy, modern vaudeville, Museum of Fine Art, New York Daily News, perspective, Peters Projection, ponchos, pseudo-intellectual nonsense, slapstick, stained glass, Thanksgiving, Whispering Gallery
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Not So Itsy Bitsy Spiders
My Facebook friends already know that we had a large, eight-legged and most unwelcome visitor a couple of weeks ago… Fortunately for the spider, it is discovered by my son and not my daughter. Carla’s somewhat direct approach to problem-solving … Continue reading
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Tagged bites, blunt instruments, brown recluse, expletives, Facebook, fiddleback, pest control, Photography, spiders
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A Hefty Fine, Traffic School and a Ton of Junk Mail
I’ve written about driving in Florida before, but I stopped short of expressing my opinion that some speed limits in Florida are too low. Dead straight, three lane carriageways flanked by vast grass verges with no pedestrians or residential buildings … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal, attorneys, Boca, Britain, Driving, Florida, frenzy, Hawaii, Honolulu, mother-in-law, sanctimonious fascist, Speed limits, The Muppet Show
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