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Diana Gabaldon’s first book, Outlander, Came Into My Life In 2003, my family moved from Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, to the San Francisco Bay Area.  My husband Joe started a new position with his firm and I was tasked with acclimating our three young children aged 10, 6, and 3 to life in Los Altos, CA.  We didn’t know a soul. My main goal was to present an adventure-like atmosphere for our three children.

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is every Christmas Eve at my wife’s parents we end our festivities by watching one of the renditions of A Christmas Carol. I must admit I was not impressed with this tradition when I was first introduced to it because I was not overly familiar with the movie or the book. I knew the general plot of the story, but I couldn’t relay the details or quote it like everyone else seemed to be able to.

Hello everyone, In February of this year just as the Market Correction was really taking hold, I did an interview with Matt Petralia about his methods and how to avoid large drawdowns. He gave an excellent presentation covering his process which resonated with many viewers regarding how simple but effective it was. His presentation begins around 4 minutes into the video although I would highly recommend you check out the full interview.

Hello everyone, It’s easy to look at Buffett today, at 92 years old and heading the world’s largest conglomerate, and see him as an abstraction of lessons about stock picking and business. It’s easy to forget this man was once young and hungry for success. Rummage around his biographies and it’s clear that he had tremendous energy. And if we look past the specific actions, we find timeless ingredients for success that have lost none of their potency in the internet age.

Do you know that the past participle of the intransitive verb lie is lain and that its past tense is lay, not to be confused with the present tense of the transitive verb lay? Oh, and do you know that no one really cares if you use them all correctly? John explains. ncG1vNJzZmikla22pLvNr5ilpJWue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqWdpGLArbHEqaCnn12ZvKi%2FjKWYsg%3D%3D

I adore waffles… Waffles, in any guise have a place in my heart for the simple fact that they are one of human kind’s best inventions, and they connect me to my culture, to my home. Waffles are great things because of their characteristics; they have little cups made by the imprint of a waffle iron - shallow or deep, depending on the sort of waffle - to keep hold of a topping or filling.

Amen. Without mystery, it would be pretty darn boring, and what would be the point? Everything said, written or even thought ends up in some kind of record, somewhere, like a giant library. Spider Woman is a tad larger than the internet web Looking hard in the mirror is quite different from looking elsewhere. The fearless searching moral inventory is not a best seller most places, but moves adventuresome souls faster than the speed of light.

Move over Jack Antonoff haters - it’s 1989 supremacy time! We have been blessed with what might be the best re-recording yet, which is a hefty title I’ve been unwilling to take away from Red (Taylor’s Version), but the time might be upon us. 1989 was originally released as Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album, and it would forever change the course of her career. Her fourth studio album, Red, received heavy criticism for mixing genres - it was too country to be pop, too pop to be country, and while Swift felt it was some of her best work yet, it lost Album of the Year at the Grammy’s to Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories.

If you know me, you know I love a list. Playlists, of course. But also? To do lists. There’s something so calming about taking tasks from my head and transferring them to paper. At this time of the year, it not only feels good – it feels like a necessity. As summer seems like a distant memory and we’re now back to the busynes… ncG1vNJzZmidnaKurbvVnq6epJxjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oo56so2K0psCMqKmgmZ6ex6aw