Home Prices Jump!

Home Prices Jump!

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Home prices in March rose by 10.9% from a year earlier, the largest such gain in seven years, according to an index tracking home prices in 20 U.S. cities. The Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller index, released Tuesday, showed that all 20 cities had … [Read more...]

How I Broke My Addiction to Takeout and Started Cooking at Home

How I Broke My Addiction to Takeout and Started Cooking at Home

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The Three Mindsets That are Holding You Back Cooking is expensive. Cooking is time consuming. "I don't know how to cook." Indulge me for a moment when I say that all of the above are false. I know how much time cooking can take. I know how … [Read more...]

FCC Debates Relaxing Indecency, Obscenity Rules

FCC Debates Relaxing Indecency, Obscenity Rules

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The Federal Communications Commission is mulling a change to a policy that, in effect, would open the doors to more obscenity on television and radio. The FCC is seeking public comment on a plan to fine only “egregious” instances of indecency, … [Read more...]

How to be the Most Attractive Homebuyer

How to be the Most Attractive Homebuyer

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To help you become a homeowner in this competitive market, experts recommend the following tips for being the most attractive: Plan Ahead “You have to plan four months before you’re going to buy,” says Michael Corbett, Trulia's real … [Read more...]

Market Manipulation, Roasted Chicken, and You

Market Manipulation, Roasted Chicken, and You

You simply cannot hide from marketing campaigns and manipulative business practices. But you can dance around them. She Danced by the Light of the Moon by Steve Henderson.

I don't know about you, but I get vaguely irritated when I realize that I'm being manipulated. And given the marketing climate in which our society operates, this means that if I don't watch it, I spend two thirds of my day in a vaguely irritated … [Read more...]

Japan’s Micro Apartment Boom Hits USA [Video]

Japan’s Micro Apartment Boom Hits USA [Video]

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Limited space and tight budgets have caused a boom in building tiny, cramped living spaces. … [Read more...]

Recipe: Healthy Kamut® Yeast Rolls

Recipe: Healthy Kamut® Yeast Rolls

What goes around, comes around. Ancient grains are poised to become new, in vogue, and popular. Chimú by Steve Henderson of Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Never heard of Kamut®? It's an ancient grain, and I give a brief overview of what it is and why we use it in Ancient Wheat -- a Potential Alternative to Gluten Free. These rolls involve time -- mixing and kneading -- but it's a relaxing, … [Read more...]

Ancient Wheat — a potential alternative to gluten free

Ancient Wheat — a potential alternative to gluten free

The wheat grown today does not look like the wheat grown in our grandparents’ day, or long before that. Break in the Weather by Steve Henderson of Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Gluten free eating is "popular" these days, although I hesitate using that P word because some people who are truly gluten intolerant (think, Celiac Disease) get offended, and understandably so. But gluten-free is popular in the sense that a lot of … [Read more...]

Flu in Your House? Make EASY, Cheap Chicken Soup

Flu in Your House? Make EASY, Cheap Chicken Soup

So maybe when they’re REALLY sick, we don’t want to be snuggy wuggy, but making hot, nourishing soup is a way to tell our indisposed loved ones, “Get well soon. Please.” Seaside Story by Steve Henderson of Steve Henderson Fine Art.

Recently two members of our household (not me, not yet) succumbed to some sort of tummy ailment that precluded eating, and once they were on the mend and agitating for something more substantial than chamomile tea, I made this soup. Those of us … [Read more...]

S&P To Expect US Lawsuit Over Mortgage Rates

S&P To Expect US Lawsuit Over Mortgage Rates

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  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it improperly gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in value and helped fuel the … [Read more...]