Read this book if you have any problems communicating - 08/23/08 03:54 PM

Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott. At the beginning is a quote "Gradually...then suddenly." from Ernest Hemingway's 'And the Sun Also Rises'. Which if you think about it is what happens alot. Things are going along one way in your life. You are working on changing your situation or planning on changing your situation. Time is passing as you are planning or working on your plan, BOOM suddenly it changes and not for the better. Then the regrets sink in and the mental torture starts, "I should have done this" and "I should have said that". We all do it.
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A new way to get cancer... from granite countertops. - 08/13/08 10:36 AM
One of my clients recently asked me if I heard the latest buzz about granite countertops giving off radon gas.
My first reaction was of doubt. "How could the most popular countertop product be unsafe? Don't they check these things before they sell them to the public."
In my PA real estate pre-licensing class I teach that Radon gas is generated from the breakdown of uranium which is embedded in the granite bed that Pennsylvania is known to cover. When it decays it turns to radium which decay into radon gas.
So my second reaction was of acceptance. "That's where it comes from alright."
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