I’ve been thinking lately about how different people go through life. Now, there are technically as many different lifestyles as there are people who have ever lived on this planet, since nobody’s life is exactly the same as anyone else’s. But there are certain commonalities amongst groups of people who share the same geographic region, […]
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Merry Valentine’s Day, everyone! For those of you with significant others to love and adore, I hope you are able to spend the day with them and have a wonderful time. For all the accusations that Valentine’s Day is a ‘Hallmark Holiday’, propagated and sustained by companies that are looking to cash in our affections,
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Someday, I hope to have children (although, not someday soon). It’s one of the things that Sondra and I have discussed; we both want one or two children once we have finished our respective educations, gotten married, and have the resources to devote to raising them in a warm, loving environment. Given this desire, and
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Ah, yet again, I find myself wishing I was half as creative in my writing as real life seems to be. Recently, Alabama lawyers brought a lawsuit against Taco Bell, alleging that the meat in their tacos and other food products isn’t really ‘meat’ so much as filler. Oh, the jokes, jests, and general snide
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Wow, it’s hard to believe, but this is the 500th post I’ve put up here on The Amateur Financier. When you combine this with the upcoming second anniversary of when I started to write for this blog early in February of 2009, to say nothing of the fact that I’ve managed to get my Alexa
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