According to a survey mentioned in Yahoo Finance on the I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog, http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/, most people are changing their spending habits in leu of a looming recession. What are most people cutting back on? Eating out, recreation, shopping, driving and gasoline expenses and a frugal 27 percent on groceries – […]
Crusaders of Live Music
The Stone, one of New York’s newest avant-garde clubs, stands on an unmarked street corner in Alphabet City. Besides a finely printed name by the handle of the outside door, only the sounds of a vibrating bass string and brushes spinning across a drum head give the venue’s existence away to a passerby. No food […]
Part 3: el Camino de Santiago
LARRY Chapter 2 We left the house at 6:45 AM. The drive to El Paso is through the high desert and to the East. The sunrise was magnificent and I hoped it was an omen of good things to come. I only wished that I hadn’t packed my camera, it would have made a great […]
A Shopper’s Guide to Staying Within Your Grocery Budget
How do you plan the food shopping for your family a week in advance? Do you know how to take advantage of grocery store sales and coupons? Do you know where to find information about sales? Or where to get grocery store coupons? How much of your budget goes for meats and fish? You need […]
A Zimbabwean Christmas
A Zimbabwean Christmas By Busani Bafana December 3, 2007 A beautiful, snowy Christmas card bearing the words, ‘Across the Miles’, turned up in my letter box the other day. It was from my pen-pal in England and it was the only mail in that usually empty metal box. I mopped tears flooding my eyelids […]
Woman Loses 500 Pounds Online!
Weighing 700 pounds, Nancy Makin had lost hope. After 12 years of weight gain, Makin had spiraled into despair. The more food she ate, the more shame she felt, and nothing could stop the cycle. Then one day her sister gave her a computer. Inspired by the friends she’d made online and no longer judged […]