It was on one of those glorious warm May days that I decided to play hooky from work and hit the beach with two friends, who were also MIA from their daily responsibilities.
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Happy and content hanging with my girlfriends
Posted on 31 July 2018.
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Hello retailers, could you please extend a welcome mat?
Posted on 09 September 2016.
It’s a lazy, rainy Sunday, and I’m trying to catch up with back issues of my decorating magazines. Too bad I need a magnifying glass and every light turned on in the room to make out the tiny, fancy white type describing where to purchase the items listed in the articles.
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Downsizing is bittersweet, a personal journey
Posted on 04 July 2016.
As I pack up our home of more than 17 years, I gaze out my front window at the weeping cherry that my husband, David, bought me for the first wedding anniversary that we spent in our home. It was so tiny then, fragile, yet elegant.
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As Social Security turns 80, it needs some help
Posted on 08 August 2015.
While the program has more than $2.7 trillion in reserves, the retirement portion has been paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes since 2010.
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Don’t leave our future in the hands of Congress
Posted on 27 July 2011.
If there’s one thing I learned from the deficit reduction talks in Washington, it’s that I can’t take for granted that the entitlements my parents and grandparents have enjoyed will remain the same for my generation of baby boomers.
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The future of Medicare, Social Security
Posted on 17 May 2011.
Here lies the opportunity for my generation to make sure that whatever Congress does to curb the deficit, Medicare and Social Security will not only survive, but will remain in forms we can count on as safety nets.
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