What Happened In Stick Figure Simplicit View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. This is awesome (and truly awful) all at the same time. We applied for (and got) a mortgage in California in 2005, and can attest to the mortgage broker’s modus operandi. The guy we worked with didn’t even present a “normal” 30-year…
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Rory’s Arrival
Image_34.jpg Originally uploaded by Pamela PC Rory Melvin was born at 10:15 pm on June 5th. He was 7 lbs and 2 oz. Mom and baby are healthy and doing well.
Respecting the Humble Potato
How did it get to be April without my realizing it’s the International Year of the Potato, declared so by the United Nations? Food prices are soaring worldwide, driven by fierce competition for reduced international supplies of wheat, maize and rice, and other agricultural commodities. As concern grows over the risk of food shortages and…
Beauty – And the Appreciation of It
My colleague Bill Brazell turned me on to this amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning piece from the Washington Post. It starts with a very simple premise — what would happen if a world-class violinist posed as a street musician in the D.C. Metro? — and manages to explore profound questions of beauty and priorities. The bit that…