It’s hard to feel festive this Fourth of July when so much of what we love about this country is under attack. But real patriotism means standing up for what’s right. The true spirit of liberty lives in resistance.
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Product Review: The Whistling Kettle Teas
Do you like tea? I sure do. I keep a tin of assorted teabags handy in the kitchen for enjoying year-round, and I’m always on the lookout for new brands and flavors to add to the collection, because I like to change it up. With the cooler weather creeping in (thank goodness), I’ll be reinstating a seasonal practice of enjoying an afternoon cup of hot tea on days I work from home, because tea is a marvelous drink. The timing could not have been more perfect then for a sample of The Whistling Kettle loose teas to arrive at my door for review consideration. Let’s check it out!
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Cooler Heads Prevail: Barack Obama is Our Next President!
Today is, honestly, the happiest day of my life in the past eight years. But it’s kind of hard to gloat (and I feel I really earned the right to gloat) when there are so many long faces here in my office on Wall Street. Geezus, what bunch of Party Poopers! I am relieved however to be able to throw down the gauntlet for a while and give the blog back over to frivolity and cute boys again knowing that our country has been awarded a new lease on life with the election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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