Home for the Holidays

December 30, 2009
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Jay is a bit of a “bah humbug” sort of guy…or so he says. But get a couple of glasses of sherry in him and he’ll tell you about the most memorable Christmas of his childhood when he got his first full sized two wheeler at 10 when  John and Margaret didn’t have a nickle [...]

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Ringing the Bells

December 18, 2009
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Watching the Snow Begin While Ringing the Bell for the Salvation Army. Spending an hour in the cold ringing the bell and trying to collect money for the Salvation Army isn’t the least bit praiseworthy especially when compared to the people in the Salvation Army who devote their lives to helping people in trouble and [...]

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Dusty

December 13, 2009
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The Worst Christmas Gift I Ever Received and the Best A recent study tried to explain how our tradition of Christmas giving is only marginally good for the economy at best… and may actually harm it. The premise is that people buy stuff for themselves that they perceive will provide some value.  However, gifts  far [...]

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Football is Over and the Boo birds Come Out

December 7, 2009
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College athletics will never be reformed because the would be reformers have it all wrong. I graduated from Notre Dame in the sixties with a degree in English Lit and some swag to remind me that I was a small part of a National Championship football team. Now that I live in Durham I follow [...]

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Design Sponge City Guide to Durham

December 3, 2009
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Via Downtown Durham Inc and its newsletter we find an interesting “city guide” to Durham. The guide was created on Design Sponge which describes itself as a “daily site for home and product design” and visually it is very attractive. The Durham guide is one of many city guides on the site and if you [...]

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Pride in Durham

November 30, 2009
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I collect most of my RSS feeds in Google Reader and I’ve found so many interesting ones to follow that sometimes I get way behind reading them…it’s kind of like unread magazines used to stack up unread when print media was more fashionable. I was catching up after the Thanksgiving holidays and came across a [...]

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Durham’s Tobacco Legacy

November 30, 2009
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It may be ironic that sweeping legislation to put tobacco regulation under the control of the FDA has been done during the administration of a president who himself is struggling with a tobacco addiction.  But as Terry Mancour of the London Guardian points out in the article here such regulation was inevitable. I’m no fan [...]

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Why You Can Sell Your Home During the Winter

November 23, 2009
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Thanksgiving is often looked at in the industry as the end of the fall season for selling homes and the beginning of the “dead season” during the winter months. It’s not true. I’ve often wondered whether this myth was purposely advanced by successful agents so that they could either 1) Take a little break themselves [...]

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Dancing

November 18, 2009

This is totally “off topic” for a real estate site and has nothing to do with Durham.  I’m not really a techie and I spent way more time today than I had budgeted trying to figure out why some parts of a “plugin” for this blog that would add additional information, just won’t work. It’s [...]

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Triangle Business Development

November 17, 2009
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It has been my privilege over the last few years to write-up some of the more interesting programs of the Downtown Durham Rotary for its bulletin. One of the reasons that I am so fond of the Rotary and this club is because its membership includes a lot of folks who have deep personal and [...]

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