When you type the phrase “American consumers” into Google, you get 976,000 results. That two-word phrase is mentioned 1,494 times in Google News stories just today. I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of hearing about American consumers. I’m all for supporting farmers, booksellers, manufacturers, craftsmen, bakers, and artisans with my dollars…
I have an uncomfortable relationship with technology. I’m conflicted about most of it – the car, the TV, the electric razor, even the “labor-saving” devices that populate our home. Oh, I use them. Sometimes I even have my washer, dryer, dishwasher, bread machine, and vacuum cleaner all going at the same time. But I have…
These are just a few of the headlines that blared off Google’s News feed last week: “World economy to shrink by 1-2 percent in 2009” “Unemployment rises in 99.7 percent of metro areas” “Rescuing the Economy Just Got Harder”. Pass the St. John’s wort, please. It’s hard not to despair about the state of the…
I used to buy a pocket calendar each year – the kind people used to jot appointments and reminders in before Smartphones. I excitedly wrote everyone’s birthdays in it, marked out vacations and holidays … then ditched it somewhere around January 4. I never seemed to have a problem remembering where I was to be…