Social Capital

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My Father-in-law is still in a nursing home and so I’m still learning about aging.  It turns out that almost as important as having good finances is having a good social network.  Building soc... Read More

The Apostles

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This could be titled “How Kai Underwood took an hour of my time.” or “Pleasant memories and current failures.” While getting out the records for Nurit’s very successful 6... Read More

Meetings

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Boring meetings are important.  They help to restore the karmic balance in your life after all of the excitement of driving to work.... Read More

Swine Flu

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From the Borowitz Report May 6, 2009 “I don’t want to frighten people, but we haven’t seen a story this scary since Y2K.” Andy Borowitz is a very funny comedian who emails his ... Read More

Zimbabwe

Inflation got a little bit out of hand in Zimbabwe last year and they printed this One Hundred Trillion dollar bill. I bought mine on ebay for $3.00 plus postage. I hope that Federal Reserve Chair Ben... Read More

Bingo!

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The Pope John Paul II center in La Habra, California has Bingo on Thursdays. My question is:  Would Pope John Paul II be okay with bingo as a fund raiser?... Read More

Call OSHA

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In Sierra Madre the other day they were changing the light bulbs on the street lamps in one of the parking lots.  This was the setup used by the city worker: I waited until he left to take the pictur... Read More