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Abby ~ 27 August 2010 ~ 14 Comments

Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails

Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails

Today all the Supergrands gathered for a very special occasion. Today Valor (who is already wearing 24 mo. clothes) officially graduated from being a baby into being a little boy (and one who likes cake!)

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Abby ~ 25 July 2010 ~ 17 Comments

Finding a home: Part 2

Finding a home: Part 2

Moving…again?! Tomorrow at 10 am, we plunge headlong back into homeownership. After our home in Central Florida sold—a miracle, given the distressed real estate market there—we started looking in New Bern, but we didn’t find anything compelling, and we had more or less decided that we would continue to rent for another six months or [...]

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John ~ 17 July 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Finding a home: Part 1

Finding a home: Part 1

About 70 days ago, my Facebook status was: Friday night : finding a replacement for Gino’s Pizza :: Sunday morning : finding a replacement for Orlando Grace. Both endeavors have left me hoping there’s something else out there. All the colons, above, are the Aristotelian notation for an analogy. Since 2005, I understand analogies have [...]

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John ~ 19 June 2010 ~ 10 Comments

up in the air

up in the air

Patient readers have endured my rambling about wealth management and Abby’s meditation on Dora and aging, and you are thinking: where is the main attraction? I will try to remedy this. One of the fun things about the small town atmosphere is the variety of small town things to do. We already wrote about Fiddle [...]

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John ~ 12 June 2010 ~ 14 Comments

what John’s been up to

what John’s been up to

Wow. It’s been over two months since I wrote a blog post—how neglectful! Well, my excuse is that April and May, even when they aren’t compromised by a sudden relocation to another part of the country, are really crunch-time for CFA Candidates preparing for their exams. That’s the Chartered Financial Analyst program, for those those [...]

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