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Kens- I’m guessing you mean you were/are in Bond Funds or combination bond funds…still a safe bet to have a portion of a 401K in Bonds..ie. 70/30,… 30% bond funds.
Denton, do you like nonfiction/autobiography? I recommend “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany” by Hans J. Massaquoi. It is a fascinating read about a young boy whose father is African and mother is German. He doesn’t fully realize he’s not Aryan and doesn’t get why he can’t join the Hitler Youth. Very good book.
That site is now in my bookmarks…I spent the better part of last night going through the pages and howling with laughter. The cats looked at me as if I were nutso. Pia eventually ran and hid under the bed.
I’m especially glad to see Colum McCann’s, Let the Great World Spin, is on the list. I hope it wins. It’s a book I’ve been meaning to recommend here, as it is a love story (imo, many others will take the opposite pov) to NYC in the 1970s. Loosely based around Phillip Petit’s walk btw the Trade Center towers.
benson, you would especially like, I think, an earlier work of his that I also love, This Side of Brightness. About sandhogs in the early 20th century who dug the tunnels under the East River, and their ethnic rivalries.
Kens- I’m guessing you mean you were/are in Bond Funds or combination bond funds…still a safe bet to have a portion of a 401K in Bonds..ie. 70/30,… 30% bond funds.
I’m TIC’d off that I didn’t put ‘How Pathetic’ on a separate line.
Denton, do you like nonfiction/autobiography? I recommend “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany” by Hans J. Massaquoi. It is a fascinating read about a young boy whose father is African and mother is German. He doesn’t fully realize he’s not Aryan and doesn’t get why he can’t join the Hitler Youth. Very good book.
There’s a blog dedicated to terrible cakes.
http://www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com
People post comments, sometimes the posts reach in the 100’s. How P A T H E T I C!
I want to read This Side of Brightness, denton. I met some of the sandhogs working at Ground Zero. They were amazing- and their stories!
Denton – I loved This Side of Brightness – really fascinating!
“therefore I didn’t lose much at all during the whole downturn last year.”
Hey Kens, that makes you a better money manager than most people!
That site is now in my bookmarks…I spent the better part of last night going through the pages and howling with laughter. The cats looked at me as if I were nutso. Pia eventually ran and hid under the bed.
So, the national book award finalists have been announced. Glad to see I’ve read and own three of five.
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_test.html
I’m especially glad to see Colum McCann’s, Let the Great World Spin, is on the list. I hope it wins. It’s a book I’ve been meaning to recommend here, as it is a love story (imo, many others will take the opposite pov) to NYC in the 1970s. Loosely based around Phillip Petit’s walk btw the Trade Center towers.
benson, you would especially like, I think, an earlier work of his that I also love, This Side of Brightness. About sandhogs in the early 20th century who dug the tunnels under the East River, and their ethnic rivalries.