It seemed like a great idea at the time, a two night camping trip, plus 5 children, 2 adults, and two cars packed full of just the “necessities”– a wonderful way to kick off summer break, take part in a little R&R, and bond as a family.
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Guys, you have run out of ideas. In my run through the dating scene, I have been on all the dates that you can possibly come up with. Catching a new movie, bowling, trying a fancy steak house, getting coffee, riding the Ferris wheel, going dancing—they all
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A few weeks ago, my best friend called me from her apartment on the phone, frazzled. “I have to tell you about this crazy thing that happened to me on the way back from going grocery shopping last week,” she began. She told me a story of
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Have you ever been involved in a comedy of errors? Like the Shakespeare play that coined the phrase, my own comedy of errors involved a mistaken identity (however, unlike the play, it didn’t feature two sets of identical twins in Ancient Greece). Instead—and arguably more absurdly—it took
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There’s no excuse this year, I know, what with our strangely balmy winter and beautiful, blue-skied spring; as a matter of fact, an argument could be made that this year, Mother Nature was all but screaming at me: “Stop digging through the cream cheese with your fingers!
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Last week’s Saturday night, May 06, 2012 was supposedly just like any other Saturdays except for a spectacular night sky view. The moon’s size and luminosity made that night more special and dramatic than ever for most people, including myself. Every year, this phenomenon nicknamed as “supermoon”
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Several weeks ago, I got stuck behind a woman at Target whose bill totaled $1200.00. She handed over a giant box of coupons, and after about a half an hour of the clerk running them through the scanner, her bill was down fewer than 200 bucks. The
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Have you ever imaginatively played the lottery? You know what I’m talking about. You’re sitting around with your friends on a Friday night, having a glass of wine, and someone asks you what you’d do with a million dollars if it magically showed up on your doorstep.
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I recently learned about this intriguing thing called the 4-10-150 rule as I was considering how social marketing impacts apartment living and renting. I know at least a little bit about social marketing, so I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of this phenomenon. I also know
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You’re probably thinking that the so-called “Zipper Merge” of latent television commercial fame isn’t exactly a rental or leasing topic. You’re probably right about that. But I justify my selection with the thinking that those of us exercising our apartment living option as human beings are also
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