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I was unemployed at age 46, it took six months to find a job. It was scary. I ended up taking a low level office job and it turned my life around.
Like millions of people I had a daily work routine. I started each morning checking my emails. Reading each one, responding to some, and filing all of them to specific folders. Then I’d jump on the phone for several hours. After a brutally exhausting day on the computer and making dozens of phone calls, I…
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RTO mandates are not about efficiency, they’re about control. I know because I was a corporate executive.
I can’t think about my time in the corporate world without remembering Office Space. The 1999 film which satirized the work life of a typical corporate software company. I just thought the movie was funny. That was until I entered the corporate work force and saw themes from the movie play out in real life….
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While family estrangement is on the rise, Yale psychiatrist urges people shun Trump-voting family members. I already did.
This past holiday season millions of American’s traveled to be with family and friends. It is a tradition almost as old as the holiday season itself. Whether grandma and grandpa are flying to see the grand kids open their presents on Christmas morning, or college kids heading back for a home cooked meal. There has…
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My mom was a Conservative, I became a Liberal. How our relationship would be different today.
In public my mom was a prim and proper Christian woman, no foul language and never a disparaging word about anyone. But once home you would be shocked at the number of racial, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and pejorative terms this proper ‘Christian’ woman knew. Even misogynistic. Here was a woman who had worked in the defense…
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Here are the top Three RV Resorts for Camping near Disneyland
ravelers heading to the Disneyland Resort for a vacation will find over a hundred hotels and resorts to choose from. Everything from budget motels up to deluxe resort properties and everything in between. You can even stay on the Disney property. But if you are arriving in an RV your options are much more limited….
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John Fetterman is wrong. Rooting against Trump isn’t rooting for the nation to fail, it’s rooting for Democracy to win.
Just two days before Christmas, John Fetterman, the Democratic junior senator from Pennsylvania, said in an interview with ABC News that “If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation.” Frankly, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Fetterman isn’t my favorite senator. To begin with, I do not understand why he…
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Before you rail against Disney for re-theming Splash Mountain, you should ride Tiana’s Bayou
This Christmas we made our annual trek to Disneyland. As former long time Southern California residents and annual pass holders we’ve been to Disneyland literally hundreds of times. We moved in 2021 to be closer to family but have made an annual holiday tradition of treating the kids to a Disney Christmas vacation. Whether you’ve…
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I was adopted the day I was born. 40 years later I found my birth mom.
Baby Boy Neary, that is the name that appeared on my birth certificate. My first one. When my adoption was finalized I got a new certificate with my new name. It bore the name of my adopted mother, Elizabeth Mott, but no father. That is because in a first for 1965, an unmarried woman had…
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Mass deportations won’t work. To stop illegal immigration we need to put Americans in prison.
The unthinkable has happened, Donald Trump has been re-elected as President. He rode a wave of populism, racism, misogyny, bigotry and hate. He didn’t just make campaign promises, he made threats. And people elected him anyway. One of those threats was to deport tens of millions of illegal immigrants. And you don’t need to look…
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At 59 I’m Living Paycheck to Paycheck. Much like some American’s, I’m doing it by choice.
Despite having a strong economy and inflation that is near the Fed target of 2.0, many people are stating – at least claiming – that they are living paycheck to paycheck. Which is defined as households spending 95% or more of their income on ‘necessities.’ According to a 2024 Bank of America survey, nearly half…