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The Popularity of Chain Restaurants

I know this is the equivalent of heresy but I’m not usually a lover of chain restaurants. Most of the ones I’ve gone to don’t live up to their reputation and I’m always surprised by the number of customers who still patronize them. One of these restaurants is having huge financial problems and is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The only thing that’s surprising is that it didn’t happen decades ago. I’ve tried this restaurant several times through the …

Sex Symbols and Porn Stars

What happened to the women who used to be sex symbols or the porn stars who used to be in such demand? Many of the women who became sex symbols in motion pictures faded into oblivion after they got too old to play the dewy ingenue. Some of the motion picture sex symbols developed their acting skills after they could no longer play women in their twenties, but most of them disappeared from the scene entirely after they were replaced …

Looking Beyond Bankruptcy

Many people see bankruptcy as their saving grace; they are so far into debt that they don’t see any other option. They make all kinds of promises to themselves that if they can get out of debt, they will never get into debt again. Some of them say they will get a second or third job or turn the household finances over to their spouse. Without an understanding of their relationship to money, how they use it and how they …

Hindsight is 20/20

They say that hindsight is 20/20 but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Our memories are often distorted and confused with our biases, our thinking patterns, our emotions, and information from external sources. Rarely do they match the reality. We often think how wonderful it would be if we could have 20/20 hindsight before we make major decisions but, maybe we do have it, and we ignore it, or we rationalize our untenable actions as if it hadn’t happened before, …

The Pain of Staying

There are so many reasons why people stay in marriages much longer than they should. Of course, the leading one is that no matter how unhappy they are, they stay because of the children. If they took a closer look at their children, they would see how the unhappy marriage of their parents was causing their children to become dysfunctional in their own lives. Fear of going it alone causes many people to stay in unhappy marriages and it usually …

Struggling for Survival

It seems like a simple solution but for many people, it’s such an emotional one that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Most people will agree that they have to find a way out of credit card debt and there are different ways to accomplish it. But that’s the easy part, if a thing like that can ever be called easy. They know that they have to leave their credit cards home and put themselves on a very …