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Mom Talks Business

Mom out on the town

Mothers provide many interesting business lessons, don’t they? I’ll preface this by saying it was a little different 45 years or so ago when I was growing up in that mothers tended to do front-line discipline while fathers were court and, frequently, executioner of last resort.   Mothers dispensed pearls of wisdom in between the tears; fathers did the same in between removing their belts (that’s all tongue in cheek, mostly). Continue reading

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Tweeting To A Million

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It made news a couple of months ago when Ashton Kutcher hit the million follower mark on Twitter.  Since then, he’s been joined by Ellen, Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, and as of this writing 19 others at the million mark.   By the way, I only have 999,600+ to go – feel free to follow. Continue reading

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Jewish Thanksgiving

Handmade shmura matzo
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This week’s Foodie Fun Friday post is dedicated to all of you who won’t be using the bathroom for the next week.  You know who you are.  But the gentiles out there are wondering “what could he possibly mean?  What could possibly stop someone up that badly?”  Well, dear readers, Passover started Wednesday night and by now, most Jewish homes have had two Seders. With those Seders goes matzo and when we say hello to the matzo, we say “buh-bye” to regularity. Continue reading

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