My Own Thoughts

One woman’s written responses to the world around her.

Archive for March, 2004

Old nursery rhymes

Posted: Friday, March 12th, 2004 @ 8:29 am in Books and Reading | No Comments »

“Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle and never went there again.” I learned this one today, after reading a Fox News note on the manhole covers in Gloucester having gone missing. I’ve never heard it before and had to look it [...]

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Why having a grandmother helps

Posted: Thursday, March 11th, 2004 @ 12:56 pm in Science | No Comments »

According to this Reuter’s article, women whose mothers live longer have more children and have them earlier. That would mean that bigger families happen to people whose moms survive a long time. Another thing that the article said is that grandmothers tend to die when their grandchildren start having children–when their role as helper is [...]

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Show me the money

Posted: Friday, March 5th, 2004 @ 7:35 am in Marriage | 1 Comment »

I’ve been feeling very so-so about getting out of debt. (Strange thing to admit.) I am trying to have a more positive attitude. There are some very good things. We’ve made a budget and have pretty much stuck with it for over six months. We’ve done phenomenally well in paying down our debt. We actually [...]

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Getting out of debt without declaring bankruptcy

Posted: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004 @ 6:09 pm in My Life | 1 Comment »

It is a conundrum. No one reads this site, so I don’t write. I don’t write, so no one reads this site. Today, however, my life has made a huge shift and I want to think about it. Since I think better in writing, I’m going to do that here. It may be more than [...]

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