It does take a village and there was no village in the Happy Valley

Hillary Rodham Clinton took the African proverb “It takes a child to raise a village” and turned it into both a book and a household phrase. For years many parents liked to refer to this phrase in their own child rearing, it was a feel good phrase but the sad reality is that to often …

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How to survive economic hardship, the how to’s of survival in this new world

New government data released says here in the US almost 16% of us are living below the poverty level. Reality is that level is so damn low it makes no sense and that what used to be a decent income doesn’t get you too far these days. . I talk a lot about my own …

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Lifestyles of the broke and unemployed…how to stay losing and lose it all

Every now and then either in my online or offline life, a topic comes up and it dawns on me just how few people are really versed in that topic. Most of the time, it matters not to me, I mean the reality is no one can know everything about a topic and there are …

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