by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 20, 2011 | for Fun, Yea Big
Alana (18): Mom, is it true that most college papers are eight to ten pages long? Mom: Sometimes. Some of my blog posts are that long. Alana: Yea, but they're about things you like to write about! Like, “Hey, I hate cooking. Let's talk about...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 19, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
A year after the completion of our home, we still have a couple of minor projects left undone. One of those is completing our custom mailbox enclosure. The physical enclose was finished last fall, the mailbox securely embedded in the weatherproof material. But the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 18, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we moved from Florida to Utah, we had the grand idea that we were going to be gentleman farmers. We had purchased five acres of land with animal rights and were getting ready to make our way on our ranchette. We planned for horses, mini-cows, chickens, and goats....
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 18, 2011 | for Money
Since my internet-bubble day-trading venture of the late 90s, I haven't spent much time in the stock market. Sure, I have the typical mutual fund retirement accounts. But I'm not a gambler…by nature or value system. Trading without doing serious company research isn't...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 17, 2011 | for Love
My mother died slowly, over years and years, bit by bit getting more lost in a cloud of dementia. She wasn't officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's, but the TIAs (transient ischemic attacks or mini-strokes—dozens and dozens of them) sure looked like it. It was her...
