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Hi! With the holiday this week, I don’t have a lot to share in this space this week. So let’s keep this [...]

If you want to buy a house, in many places, you don’t need to have cash on hand to meet the full purchase [...]

Batesville, Arkansas is a small city in the northeastern part of the state. (Here’s a map.) It’s home to [...]

Hi! I like to think I have high standards when it comes to what I share on these pages. There are a lot of [...]

The Mall of America is located in Bloomington, Minnesota, just a few miles outside Minneapolis/St. Paul. It [...]

In an average year, the Coca-Cola Company spends billions of dollars advertising its brands and its products. [...]

A few weeks ago, a man walked into the middle of the road in Vancouver, Canada, waving a brick in the air. [...]

Hi! Yesterday, I shared the story of Pia Farrenkopf, a woman in her mid-40s who died very much alone in 2009, [...]

In early 2014, the neighbors of Pia Farrenkopf, pictured above, noticed a problem: squirrels. Farrenkopf was [...]

If you’re going to do the crime, be prepared to do the time. That aphorism (or something like it) is a [...]