Sometimes I sit a few cars back at a stoplight that has just turned green and imagine how efficient it would be if we could all trust each o...

Once upon a time there were two fields and two farmers. One field was fertile, and the farmer who lived there worked diligently to plant cro...

I care about disparity in wealth: I want more disparity between starvation levels and the poorest poor. If the richest rich also increase t...

Vida Express is run by a company called T-Cetra.  They are a go-between for wireless carriers, and deal in activation of SIM cards and facil...

Media (books and movies) should not be censored.   Original authors may censor their own works, in a sense, by omitting immoral content.  Sh...

For Mother’s Day my family took Mom out to a restaurant we’d never been to before, Cheddar’s.   Dad was leery since the name sounded like ch...

That night I called on a car I’d had my eye on for a while, but which I knew had been through several showings earlier in the week.   He tol...

On a Tuesday morning, I nervously picked up my phone to schedule a test drive of a 2003 Dodge Neon.   It just so happens that our first snow...

After I had learned to identify scams on Craigslist , I got to work researching real potential cars.   I grabbed a scribble pad from the do...

My search on Craigslist for a used car for sale from a private seller soon yielded some exciting results.   When I compared the listed cars...

I took my pretty gold Saturn to a mechanic when I got the chance a few months ago.  Its engine had been idling rough, especially at stoplig...

Our local shopping mall has gone through a transformation in the last several years, as it was bought out by Simon Malls.  That mall group s...

I was having a conversation about the economy last week, and my friend was talking about how to thrive in a recession.  And I recommended th...