>>BY MELISSA GEIL At the beginning of each month, I write two checks from my bank account. One to my older daughter’s preschool, and one...[Read More]
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>>BY SARA LANG There’s an old joke about the similarities between lawmaking and sausage-making: neither of them are something you want to see, and watching turns...[Read More]
>>Think back to the last election. Do you remember how many Mitt Romney signs and how many Barack Obama signs appeared on your neighbors’ lawns?...[Read More]
>>I’ve always thought the practice of making New Year’s Resolutions was a bit defeatist. Here you have a blank canvas, an untouched twelve months of...[Read More]
>>My husband tells me all the time that I set artificial deadlines. “We have to be at the kids’ school by 5 pm” — it’s...[Read More]
>>I find it ironic that immigration has become a dirty little word over the last couple days in a country to which most everyone immigrated...[Read More]
>>Do you have a >>savings account? Could you buy a house right now? Would you be able to pay to start college next semester if you...[Read More]
>>When my husband and I were deciding when to start our family, our decision had as much to do with our ages at the time...[Read More]
>>Have you gotten a raise in the last year? Probably not, if you’re like the majority of North Carolinians. Unfortunately for you (and most of...[Read More]
>>If you took all our conversations that happen in the office break room, in the school pickup line, and over wine with friends – I’m...[Read More]