About a year or so ago I went through a certain degree of soul searching and quiet desperation over the fact that my parents are selling the house I grew up in and moving to Whyoming. The issue is, should I try to buy my parents out and keep the home for myself and my posterity? There are a lot of details and I'll save you most of them but I ( Read more... )

I'd like to try not allow what I think and write and say to be too negative. I think I tumble too easily into this saturnian, depressive, cynical mode and I'd like to wean myself of that before its too late. I have an uncle who is, on most accounts, brilliant and successful, yet he seems to me to be consumed by hate. That bothers me. That's ( Read more... )

I went to the U.S. to try to relax, make contact with family, and remind myself that I'm, after all, American. Right from the start and right up until the end, I did a lot of mental and emotional struggling with the fact that my parents are selling the home I grew up in. I still want it, but it would be an idiotic investment and well beyond my ( Read more... )