Category: Things
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Talk to someone before you buy those Cam Newton Versace pants
I have a story to tell, and it has very little to do with Cam Newton and his Versace pants, but just enough that I justified creating that scintillating if not somewhat misleading title. But first, some context: I own a truck. The truck is a great truck (a Toyota…
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Happiness is an inexact science, and not a science at all
Your present self doesn’t quite know what will make your future self truly happy and fulfilled, which makes this business of living a pretty tough one. We sort of go around doing things right now that our in-five-seconds-or-hours-or-months-or-years-self will appreciate and be grateful for, and this is natural and expected.…
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Play It Again Sports, skipping Halloween, and the importance of family rituals
Despite the wonderful reality of having a Piggly Wiggly and a public pool and a library all within a two block radius, the town I grew up in had fewer homes than my current neighborhood in Raleigh, and it was a big deal when they built the strip mall with…
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What’s the coolest under-$10 purchase you’ve made?
I have, on my keychain, an odd looking piece of metal. I don’t know exactly what it looks like, but whenever I see it I think of a Lego figure’s arm and hand. It’s a bottle opener, and it says PEABODY’S on it, and I think it was somewhere in…
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Your Amazon order history
My wife and I are Amazon Prime members, because it is an elite club of millions and millions of people who pay to be two-day shippers of innumerable items, for free. I mean, technically we pay for the free two-day shipping, but it doesn’t cost anything. And also to lease the rights…
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The unified theory of money
A great dish hits you like a Whip-It: There’s momentary elation, a brief ripple of pure pleasure in the spacetime continuum. That’s what I was chasing, that split second when someone tastes something so delicious that their conversation suddenly derails and they blurt out something guttural like they stubbed their…
Meaningful Returns 