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Transitions and Life Events: Graduations and Weddings, 2018 - SHOPPING ON AMAZON: The first business model of this site is Amazon. You start here, buy something there, Butler gets a commission. And not just on the item reviewed. Anything
Valentine’s Day - “What are you rebelling against?” Marlon Brando is asked in the 1954 motorcycle classic, “The Wild One.” “Whaddya got?” he snaps. Now there's a guy I can relate to.
Valentine’s Day 2019 - In the run-up to Valentine's Day, we scurry around looking for something that's... just right. Because feelings --- real feelings --- are hard to express. Even the most eloquent of
Valentine’s Day, 2008 - I loathe this day. It's always seemed to me a holiday ginned up by merchants to get Americans to spend any discretionary dollars they haven't blown at Christmas. And as
Valentine’s Day, 2011 - I had a mild bout of pneumonia a few weeks ago. It wouldn’t be worth mentioning --- steroids and a ventilizer can cure most any lung problem --- but it
Valentine’s Day, 2014 - For a decade now on this site, I’ve put “Valentine’s Day” and “loathing” in the same sentence. This year? I must be getting soft. My excuse: Many of us spend
Valentine’s Day, 2015 - When I was young, I burned through people. There were so many of them, all replaceable. As I was. Try it, buy it, if you don’t like it, bring it
Valentine’s Day, 2016: Once Again, With Feeling - When I thought I lived in an orderly world, Valentine’s Day meant nothing to me. I wasn’t completely wrong: The not-so-secret secret of romance isn't about bearing flowers and bonbons
Valentine’s Day, 2017 - In my novel, Married Sex: A Love Story, there’s a separation. As it’s getting resolved, the wife sends her husband an email with a Joni Mitchell lyric from Blue.
Valentine’s Day: ‘This is a song about Wavelength’ - The Grammys: Several of you have written to note that Bon Iver --- I raved about his first CD in 2008 --- won Best New Artist of 2011. How can
Vitamin D3 - Does this ever happen to you? You hear about something from a friend. Then you see a commercial for it. Then someone sends you an article about it. So
Walter’s Wish - Gracias a Dios por Kelli Porthan. If you’ve been reading about the immigration bill, you know that the price of getting this legislation through the Senate was the commitment to spend
Wedding, Graduation, Father’s Day - Wedding, Graduation, Father's Day,
What I Did On My Summer Vacation - A lot can happen in a few weeks, and a lot did. But what stands out is a two-week course in Computer Graphics & Game Design that our 9.5-year-old daughter
What is to be done? - My review of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown made some readers crazy. Here's a representative e-mail: What about me? This book is all about them...It is good to know about
What The Rich Believe: “If You Have Less Than $700 Million, You Have No Hedge Against Inflation” - In the 1980s, I was briefly married to a woman whose mother was one of the twenty richest people in the country. It was a dazzling, disconcerting experience. There were
Winter Wonderland: 4 movies, 5 books, 1 puzzle - It’s an icebox. Over the weekend, you can watch sports. You can follow the Trump train wreck. Or you could turn away from all that and feed and entertain that
