Back on September 16, 2008, I opined in my local blog that what we were in the midst of was a fundamental reset of our way of life in America. I ventured that our home values and stock portfolio values were resetting; and our expectations about jobs and job security were resetting. Even our expe
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03/31/2009
I saw a report on the news recently about the number of people now living in RV's and campers on the streets of various cities and towns. This phenomenon happens mostly in warmer climates, but I do recall that we have people locally who live in the state parks in RVs all summer. Who are these peo
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03/30/2009
I recently saw a great set of charts and explanations of the current economic and housing mess that we are in, which help one better understand where we might be and what lies ahead. First lets get to a chart that I composited from similar charts on various economic web sites and my own thoughts
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03/29/2009
I recently read an article titled "The Squishy ROI of Social Networking" by Andrew Conry-Murray in InformationWeek, one of the IT Industry trade rags that I still get after a long career in that industry. This article focused upon the use of SN software to create corporate SNs inside of companies
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03/27/2009
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." (Plutarch) from the
Jack's Wining Words Blog. As usual, Jack's words serve to provoke thought about what I'm doing to fire-up my mind. There is a tendency to passively fill one'
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03/26/2009
From Iconoculture, a lifestyles and culture tracking news feed that I receive, come this story about the Great Recession meeting the American work ethic. Only one in three Americans believe they'll ever be able to retire fully, according to a January 2009 survey by Scottrade (BusinessWire 2.25.09
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03/25/2009
If it wasn't bad enough that we had a public outcry and lawsuits about lead in Chinese-made toys and toxic chemical filler in Chinese manufactured baby formula, now we find out that the Chinese may even be screwing up our houses. From a recent story in USA Today comes this report. Several home ow
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03/24/2009
"Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something!" as seen on a t-shirt recently and likely a quote by some one notable. I might change the last part to read "Everybody can do something different.," as I have opined here recently. The key here is to act, to do something and not be frozen
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03/23/2009
That headline appeared in the this month's Ladies Home Journal as a quote from Michael J. Fox. I remember watching Michael as Alex P. Keaton on the show Family Ties and later in his movie roles in the Back to the Future movies, and in his last series role Spin City. Michael's battle with Parkins
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03/22/2009
In every pond large or small there are the big fish. In ponds that are small town America these are likely to be the home town hero who never left town or who came back to town when he blew out his knee and his athletic career was over. They are the glad-handing, back-slapping loud talking, go
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03/21/2009
