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2009
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When I was about four years old, my grandmother sent me a fabulous rag doll for Christmas. She had blond yarn hair that was neatly braided into two long pigtails. I named her Dagmar after the little girl in a popular TV show of the day, "I Remember Mama." After many months of being my constant ...
05/10/2009
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Ireme Kennedy could possibly be one of the three dozen or so first cousins I've never met. But her choice of my Favorite Newbie of the week is not nepotism. She began to blog in early April, and she's not only had a couple of featured posts, but there was also a featured post that somebody wrot...
05/09/2009
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Yesterday, I overslept. Instead of being a good dog human and taking Willie for a nice long walk, I opened the back door and shoved him out. He got even. Not that he dug up flower beds - there are none. My back yard is like a virgin jungle. Instead, he found a mud puddle and came in an incre...
05/09/2009
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Perhaps the best kind of party in Washington, DC is the book party. And last night I went to a really fun one. I went to a celebration to welcome Martin Walker's Bruno - Chief of Police to Amazon and to bookshelves around the country. It's a novel set in a small French village that made me want...
05/07/2009
Sometimes buyers just amaze me!A lot of the time, buyers are hesitant to open up closets or kitchen cabinets when they are in search of Dream House. But that's really OK to do. After all, you want to know if the closets enough shelf space for your Manolos. And are the kitchen cabinets deep en...
05/06/2009
This is an old saying attributed to "Anonymous", a very wise purveyor of good advice throughout the ages. And it came to me this morning from a fellow who sends me a message like this every single day. His name is Joe White, and I'm not sure how I got on his email list! Glad I did though. Most...
05/06/2009
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I was showing condos to a buyer I didn't know very well - it was a second foray to the streets of Washington. He was looking for a great place at a great price. (OK, when's the last time you had one who said he wanted to pay too much for a dump?) And I had five great possibilities. Quite by ac...
05/05/2009
Chris Ann Cleland wrote a great post yesterday about the importance of having a Power of Attorney in place if you think there is any chance you will need one. And I totally agree with every word she wrote. And there is one interesting issue that I think needs to be raised, and that is to whom d...
05/03/2009
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Sharon Lee, a virtual assistant from Evington, Virginia, attracted my attention in two ways. She not only writes funny and uplifting blog posts. She also writes funny and uplifting comments on her blog buddy's posts. Sharon started to blog somewhere around the first of the year. It used to be ...
05/02/2009
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There was just an item on our 11 o'clock news that the President is now on Twitter. You can tweet the guy to let him know how you weigh in on the weighty issues of the day. Now, lots of people are probably tweeting him about what to do about the economy, Iraq and the swine flu outbreak. But not...
05/02/2009
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Pat Kennedy -- author of The Irreverent Guide to Real Estate -- gives you a look at life on the streets as a real estate broker in our nation's capital. And her blog is peppered with great advice combined with humor!