Will Snowmagedon Come Calling To The SE Texas Coast?

Now comes a fitting bookend to a winter seemingly without end. While we have missed any snow accumulations here this winter, we did have a full afternoon of flurries back

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Death And Taxes And Rebirth And Taxes

I tossed and turned in bed last night in a perfect storm of  tax related muses…nightmares…planning. I had a meeting with a CPA yesterday. I had arranged the meeting to

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Lost In The Muse…

It has been a misty, rainy, quiet day today. Nothing spectacular in the weather, just a slow drizzly, yukky  looking winters day. It’s been quiet because number two grandson and

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A Weekday Routine Is Always Disrupted By A Weekend…

Coffee Muses require solitude…Having a non-blogging significant other across the table from you as you wander through your morning routine tends to put you in a different place. Not a

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Decompressing Toward The New Year…

It’s Sunday morning, two days after Christmas, the shines bright in a robin’s egg sky. It’s cold out…Though, nothing like most of the country. Yesterday’s rain has given way to

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Top 10 coffee-drinking countries

The top-10 coffee-drinking countries: Finland (11.8 kilograms per person per year) Norway (9.6 kilograms) Denmark (9 kilograms) Iceland (9 kilograms) Switzerland (8.2 kilograms) Sweden (7.8 kilograms) Aruba (6.8 kilograms) Netherlands

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Wall Street Must Be Clueless—Bonuses At Big 3 Set To Be $30 Billion

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this

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