This week marks one year since I started this blog – my one year Blogiversary. I’ve faithfully put up a fresh post every week – 52 of them in all. That’s about 48 posts more than the average new blogger makes it, I think. Honestly, I didn’t know how long I’d be able to sustain […]
Archives for September 2017
4 Terrible and 1 Great Idea for Student Scholarship Application Essays
I’m an amateur expert in judging scholarship application essays. I’m an active member (and frequent judge) of a professional association that gives $7,000 in scholarships to college students, and I also read a lot of Nora’s student scholarship essays to give students some informal feedback. You might remember that Nora works in a school. With […]
To Buy or Not to Buy – Analyzing the Need for Travel Insurance
A recent post on my mom’s service trip to India on which she broke her hip raised a few questions among readers about travel insurance. Is it worth the expense, or is it like the extended warranty offered on an electric screwdriver at checkout – an extra expense that pads the retailer’s bottom line. As […]
Despite My Parking Lot Experience, I Still Prefer Safeway
“Does anyone own a beige Mini Cooper?” Believe me, that’s not something you want to hear yelled in a grocery store by the rent-a-cop. If you own a beige Mini Cooper, like me, I mean. I desperately wanted someone else to say, “Yeah, I got one of those.” It’s possible, right? But nothing. So I […]