Living Large In Our Little House

Kerri & Dale 1979 

Dale and I have been together a while, this will be our 30^th Valentine’s Day together. I know, some of you believe that Valentine’s Day is just another man­u­fac­tured hol­i­day pro­moted by the greet­ing card, flower and candy com­pa­nies to sell their prod­ucts. Others, such as some of my links on Facebook say, “Bah-hum-bug. We don’t need a day to be told to cel­e­brate our love.”

Growing up in the home city of Hallmark Cards, we might have been tar­geted for the adver­tis­ing and hype ear­lier than oth­ers.  Of course, we know not just one day of show­ing love and appre­ci­a­tion does a rela­tion­ship make, but what's the harm of cel­e­brat­ing a day of love? It's bet­ter than cel­e­brat­ing a day of hate.

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As many of you know, among my pas­sion for Living Large, I also have a pas­sion for pets and pet rescues.

Please check me out at my new blog­ging gig over at K9 Cuisine.

In addi­tion to my blog­ging about dog and cat res­cues and shel­ters and the peo­ple who adopt and the pets that have been saved, there are blogs on gen­eral pet tips, tips for peo­ple with kids and pets, train­ing, health, and nutri­tion. All of them penned by great writ­ers and ani­mal lovers!

Please book­mark my site there and join me every Friday with new tails of rescue!

Don't worry, I'll still be here at least every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Congratulations, Kristi! Your name was the one I drew this morn­ing for a signed copy of "Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies." Please email me by Wednesday, January 27 with your con­tact infor­ma­tion. fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com

Today's post.….

When we moved, we antic­i­pated the major things – how much we would miss our friends and fam­ily, Dale’s long time job that pro­vided us 4 weeks of vaca­tion (and a salary to take them), even being 10 min­utes from any major attrac­tion or activ­ity our big city had to offer.

What we didn’t take into con­sid­er­a­tion were the small things, such as find­ing a good radio station.

We’re big fans of music – Classic Rock to be exact – and since we’ve lived here in the Ozark Mountains, we have had a time try­ing to find a radio sta­tion we enjoy.

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Happy Friday, every­one! Although I'll be work­ing through the week­end, the end of my reg­i­mented week is almost over. Today, I have Ann C. Logue, author of "Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies" answer­ing some ques­tions about her book.When Dale and I opened our IRA, I was con­cerned about some of the com­pa­nies we would be invest­ing in.  Our finan­cial advi­sor didn't have a whole lot of answers for us, but I'm bet­ting Annie's book will help us do it bet­ter the next time. When we have money to invest again, I hope to be a lot smarter about money and more aware of where my invest­ment $$ are going.

Annie is the author of three books in Wiley’s “For Dummies” series. She has also writ­ten for Barron’s, Newsweek Japan, and BusinessWeek Chicago, among other pub­li­ca­tions. She is a lec­turer in finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her cur­rent career as a writer/author fol­lows 12 years of expe­ri­ence as an invest­ment ana­lyst. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Click to the next page for my short inter­view with Annie and learn how you can enter to win a signed copy of her book.

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