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Responses to all (I can’t figure outhow to do that thing of intermingling comments and responses): First,thanks for so much serious attention to...

I have two unusually compassionate dogs. When I was laid up with a fractured hip, a vet came to our house. She was new to us. One of these...

DH and I made years ago some rope ladders plus long sticks attached at the ends for our African Grey parrot to be able to travel around the house...

Sex offender, stay away. I treated a few in my psychoanalytic practice in NYC and they are usually multiply addicted, not just to sex, and have...

When people who offer expensive services (most recently dentist) want to do extra services for you tell you that they will "work with you" to let you...

I ran into a well-to-do chiropractor who worked on dogs we had when we moved to NM in 2001. She was very expensive then, but worked on 3 dogs (I had...

Catherine, I love your entry about how you'll be okay--particularly the list of Peace Pilgrim and the other low/no earners, and especially the tale...

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Catherine, I think it's good you're asking people who aren't emotionally entangled in your specific situation. Your situation feels familiar to...

Thanks for the ideas. I've finally gone back to what I used to do years ago and forgot: diluting the alcohol half and half with water.

I think one of the hard things in any kind of family relationship is when two people want different distances from each other--one closer than the...

Not a bad idea Bae....problem is what if you can only find PT work like millions of our college degreed young face. What if the reality is that you...

I wish there was a like button to click on as I really like the above post re: affordable housing in Indianapolis! Rob

I don't disagree with you here - if enough people started moving out, probably the housing market would become less expensive. This happened in...

The problem with this is simple - those most vulnerable to the free market in housing somewhere expensive like Seattle can't afford the moving van,...

What I meant is some program to pay for these people to move somewhere less expensive.....I guess you could call it protection against the market you...

I'd be thrilled if these simpler, smaller spaces were widely available but where I live in Phoenix, I'm not seeing this happening. I think you have...

Bae, I know you live out in the country so it's possible you are not aware of this.....But you are not too far away from Seattle, a beautiful city...

That's great that you are not raising prices to the point of non-affordability, Bae, kudos to you and I mean that sincerely. Problem is, not...

Given many of my views and stances, I am sure I am on some list somewhere. I have a story about this I find relevant to the times. Back in 2010...

Gotta say I agree with Alan here.....it's very creepy to think that allegedly we have all these rights such as freedom of speech and freedom to post...

In my way of thinking, a house being viewed as an "investment" carries the implication that at some point the "investment" - in this case shelter -...

You speak the truth that so many Americans now face.....not just a small disenfranchised minority, but unfortunately, more and more and more of us. ...

I see both sides here, both pinkytoe's and Iris Lilly's.....OTOH, I do find it very depressing and dehumanizing that a house is considered an...