Digi-Journal

My new year’s resolutions:  a) find a rich man to marry; b) buy a huge and ridiculously beautiful house and then spend more than a year’s salary of some of my friends making it sinfully gorgeous; c) have the man referenced in a) finance b); d) rub it in Julie’s smug and snooty face. 
Okay, those [...]

Girl Scouts are evil, man.  They try to fool you with those cheery little smiles, those freckles, and crooked teeth.  Sometimes they’ll even offer you cookies for nothing but your eternal, blind trust (and ten dollars).  Don’t be fooled.  Girl Scouts are evil.
My fiberglass wall fountain, the pride and joy of my front patio, now [...]

They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but after taking a computer course with my grandmother, I’m not so sure!
When her best friend Mabel mentioned that her daughter was teaching a couple of Internet courses at the local community college, Gram wanted to take one of the courses, but was a [...]

My husband and I have been curious about home solar systems and the pros and cons of solar energy.  Our electricity bills average several hundred dollars every month, and let me tell you, I am absolutely sick of paying the power company that much money.  My husband and I have three kids.  We live in [...]

One of the things that I have found to be true in designing my own office space is that it’s important to me to have a lot of personal touches in that space while also maintaining a professional atmosphere. I have found that choosing the right furniture for the office helps greatly with creating the ambience [...]

As a seasoned real estate investor, I like to think that I have a trained eye for seeing value in a potential investment property.  Sure, I may not make the best choices all the time, but for the most part, I seem to be able to pick out winning investments.
For example, I was recently able [...]

I work on my own car, a 1983 Nissan 280ZX.  For a little while now I’ve been trying to track down an intermittent problem that is preventing the car from starting.  Because it doesn’t do it all the time, the car runs, but not reliably enough to trust taking it anywhere.
One thing we have wondered is [...]

I’m a teacher, and you might think that we have access to all the information in the world on our students.  But guess again!  Because of privacy issues, we get to know very little unless the school or family deems that it’s necessary to share with us. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve [...]

A friend of mine is getting ready to come home from his third tour of duty overseas.  He has been very fortunate so far and his wife is looking forward to his arrival.   He has about one more year left of active service before he will step away from military life.
One activity that my friend [...]