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74Guide to being Sixty
Sixty is not for sissies. Some of you already know this, but if you are not there yet, it is advisable to start thinking about adjusting your attitudes. At age 60 you can look in the mirror and know...
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73Defensive Grocery Shopping
C'mon we might as well recognize it and, and say it right out: supermarket shopping is an adversarial situation. Buying groceries requires a shopping strategy. Oh, the checkers, and boxpersons are friendly...
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70A Drive in the Wild Merced River Canyon
March 21, 2009: A trip up the Merced River canyon heading toward Yosemite National park is always an inspiring journey. Steep sides of the canyon, crusted with rocky outcroppings and splashed with...
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68A New Mop Has Me Wringing My Hands
I am strongly opposed to learning anything more about housekeeping, but if a product offers the possibility of making cleaning easier, I get drawn in. Last week I bought an allegedly "self-wringing"...
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67My (Very) Brief Show-Business Career
It was the Shirley Temple era, and mothers of cute little girls took them to singing and dancing and acting lessons.Agencies and studios for such activities had sprung up all over the place. I don't really...
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81Sociopathic Murderers I Have Known
I've only personally known two sociopathic teenage killers in my whole life. And I suppose that is enough. Actually, I can't say that I really knew either of them. Quite probably, even those people...
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77Silly Person's Guide to a Gold Rush Museum
Visitors from all over the world come into The Mariposa Museum and History Center each year. One of the unique and important things about this museum in California's Gold Country, is that almost all of...
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71Surviving Financial Depresson, Day-to-Day in the 1930's
(Answering the request about how people handled their finances in the 1930's)People didn't save money in the 1930's. they didn't have enough money to have a "finantial situation". Most people had little...
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81Gold Rush Medicines: A Dose of Deception
The westward movement in the United States started in the mid-1800's at the same time as the rise of mass advertising and the marketing of patent medicines. Many pioneers, concerned about the challenges...
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73Monitor Madness: Are You getting the Picture?
My old monitor was not behaving well. The resolution wasn't resolving. The display wasn't displaying, and the the refresh wasn't refreshing. I had tried polite requests, begging, pleading, hoping,...
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