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My latest shipment from Amazon did not include a coupon for cold cuts.
And I was so looking forward to some tasty, yet economical, pimento loaf.

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I posted the other day about age discrimination. A 50+ friend of mine who has struggled with this issue commented to me via email—he didn’t want to make a public post lest some employer find it via Google. He also sent me a link to this article.
The gist of the article is (1) people don’t [...]

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“God was looking out for me that day,” Linda said, “because I called four different exterminators and none of them could come out for four or five hours and I was trapped in my house watching my animals die.”
This is the closing quote from the article Bees trap woman in home, kill her dog ‘Chewy’ [...]

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It’s amazing to me that places like this still exist:
Women at the [Phoenix Country Club] are not permitted to have lunch in the men’s grill room with their husbands after a round of golf; they have been barred from trophy ceremonies after tournaments, even ones they have sponsored…As teenage boys saunter into the sumptuously appointed [...]

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There was a crash of breaking glass from the living room. My first thought was: Oh, no! Not the blue vase. I like the blue vase. Pretty blue vase.
No, Barry was on the other side of the room, and one of the table lamps was on the floor. My thought was: Oh, well. We need [...]

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Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

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I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]

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According to today’s junk mail solicitations, I am
one of “our country’s most accomplished women”
and part of “a small, select group of creative professionals.”
Please, please, don’t send accolades. Send money.

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I got a letter in the snail mail today inviting me to join the National Association of Professional Women. The letter states “There is no fee to be included.”
They forgot to add the disclaimer “…until we charge your credit card. But by then you’ll have forgotten that you ever signed up for this and HA [...]

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Banking irony:
With the free checking account
there are no free checks

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