Improve your life and finances — and make new friends
This post was originally published in the Shreveport Times, August 21, 2014. Author Jeb Breithaupt It doesn’t happen too often, but every now and then I’ll get a call from a pair of good friends …
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“Do you see my glasses?” asks Diana, 80 plus, of her home-mate Rob who is easily 30 years younger. “Yup” he says as he gets them and hands them to her. There is a kindness and gentleness between …
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Living with another person who is not a family member is a strange idea for many. The resistance to it is understandable — after all, home is sanctuary. Here’s an idea that might help overcome …
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"This house needs people” is the thought that came unbidden one day as Patricia walked through the living room of her large four-bedroom colonial with three and a half baths. She had lived there with …
My “accordion house” is how Arnie Arnesen describes the large Queen Anne Victorian home she owns in Concord New Hampshire, the state's capitol. She calls her house an “accordian house” because it can …
Thanksgiving Yams It started with a spontaneous act of generosity that ends with two widows who live alone having Thanksgiving together. Sweet Potatoes When Joni, 77 and widowed, went food shopping …
