I was wondering if everyone has an order when it comes to checking their daily websites. It seems to be beneficial , but how many really have the luxury of having a big block of time for this before their daily grind begins? Some days, I leisurely browse the ‘net and up wasting entire hours on sites... read more

It’s been about 5 years since I began posting on message boards, and lately it seems they are becoming magnets for rudeness. Have any of you noticed? When I first began following threads, it was on a spirituality site. One would think that such a place would attract those trying to improve their... read more

In order to follow the stock market, an investor needs information. The internet provides great amounts of news and data to assess both the stock market, in general, and individual stocks in particular.  Besides having read “The Wall Street Journal” for what seems to be forever and a day, I use... read more

Today’s topic, dear readers, concerns the subject of losing things. Is it my imagination, or are we all misplacing and losing things more than in the past? Do you think it’s because we’re getting older, busier, more stressed, or all of the above? Now, there are many aspects of losing things that... read more

The 2007-8 Presidential campaign has been shaken with some minor and maybe not so minor ethics scandals, with an official having a drug past resigning from Fred Thompson’s camp, by the indictment of Bernard Kerik, a former Giuliani Administration official, on charges of tax evasion, and from accusations... read more

What any ordinary investor buying stock really cares about is whether he is going to make money.  Losing is not what it’s really all about. So looking at philosophical approaches to playing the market can reveal a wealth of ideas into what it takes, although when politics comes in you are talking... read more

The other night, I was talking to a friend (you know who you are!) about her upcoming blind date with a gentleman she met through an online personal ad. It got me to thinking about the possibilities that exist today in romance. Half a lifetime ago, I joined a dating club where a person needed to write... read more

State politics In New York appear to have deteriorated to the point that Albany Republicans are hoping to prove that there are lies on the official record in testimony already given by aides to the Democratic Governor, one Eliot Spitzer, who has prided himself on being called the Sheriff of Wall Street. ... read more

As if we don’t have enough parameters that separate and divide us, there is the difference between those who carefully follow recipes and those who just throw an unspecified amount of any old thing into a pot…guess into which category I fall? The other night, we had a guest over and my husband asked... read more

Well, if you’re in the Northeast today, you know what I mean. No matter how old I get, I always smile when I see that first snowfall. Mind you, by April I’m ready to smash it into the ground so I can’t see it, but it is exciting in November. Perhaps it’s because we haven’t seen the white... read more