Posted On: December 11, 2011
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Everybody’s looking for a way to save money these days. And nobody’s got more brilliant ideas than Corporate America. You can’t buy a cup o’ jo or a paperclip without some store-clerk puppet mouthing that…
Posted On: October 31, 2011
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Friend of a friend. That’s how I met Wendy Swart Grossman, today’s guest blogger.
Face to face. That’s how we will soon meet, instead of screen to screen.
St. Olaf College. That’s where we both…
Posted On: October 11, 2011
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Kara McGuire has one of the coolest jobs around: She gets to write about money. No, not Donald Trump and the VIX index, but helpful info for the average checkbook bungler. On Tuesday, October 18,…
Posted On: October 3, 2011
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On the freeway, dude in the pick-up behind me talks on his cellphone, snarfs a sandwich, and tailgates like we’re attached until I leave the lane.
Downtown, woman in high heels texts while j-strutting through…
Posted On: September 17, 2011
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Survey sez…
32% of parents play computer games with their children every day
80% described this as quality time
Source: PopCap Games
Screen living continues to turn us on. If 80% of parents say Guitar…
Posted On: September 1, 2011
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Do you have a list, written or not, of things you want to do before you…expire? If so, that’s your bucket list, a term that everybody seems to detest, but gets more usage all the…
Posted On: June 29, 2011
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Summer arrives in Minnesota like molasses in January. So when it finally hits, we again learn the thrill of life in the slow lane. Oh sure, schedules scream for attention even during the sultry months. …
Posted On: June 23, 2011
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You meet the most interesting people in cyberspace. One of them who recently crossed my vector is the talented Alexis Grant—travel writer, social media coach, and career-beat journalist for US News and World Report.
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Posted On: June 11, 2011
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These could be shocking words. But when my 8-year-old daughter squealed them recently, I chuckled. She was playing with my hair—bored out of her skull while watching her 14-year-old brother play baseball. Again. She had…
Posted On: May 11, 2011
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Throughout the Middle East, nations roil like boats lost at sea while trying to figure out this thing called democracy. They look to a beacon called USA for guidance, while simultaneously dissing our unsavory ways. …
