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This is the first in the series of monthly Pondstraddler Life™ Financial Perspectives Reader FAQ.
Last week’s article, entitled “Are you a Pondstraddler”, invited interested readers with international connection concerns to take the Pondstraddler Qu...
DATE: Mar 31, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
What and who makes us who we are? Genes, people, environment?
I was going through my documents and found my daughter’s personal statement for her application for college.
We were living in San Francisco. I remember the sad sound of a foghorn in the ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Sometimes our fitness journey doesn’t go as planned. Sometimes the weight won’t drop, the inches won’t decrease (or increase — some of us want leg gains).
Sometimes your body has had enough. Sometimes life … just … sucks.
Does it really, though? The...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dre Hinds
By the hundreds of thousands, they came. They gave impassioned and articulate speeches. The shared their experiences in Chicago, South Los Angeles and Florida. They gave one TV interview after another, displaying remarkable poise and heartbreaking si...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Jennifer Rubin
“It is time. #deletefacebook.”
That declaration came from Brian Acton, co-founder of the messaging service WhatsApp — itself a Facebook property, sold to the company for $19 billion in 2014 — in a tweet after news of the social network’s Cambridge An...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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One of the most frequent lines of questioning I receive from readers is to do with islanders’ increasing interconnection with the outside world — and all of its rules and regulations.
In response to that, the Moneywise column, on the last Saturday of...
DATE: Mar 24, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Fishcakes were never meant to be healthy — or so says my editor.
And I know, I know, she’s right!
But when your fishcake is sandwiched into a hot cross bun with lashings of mayo and a side of mac ’n’ cheese, some damage limitation might come in han...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
If one was feeling adventurous, they would jump into the water on South Shore in Bermuda, point their compass due south and head out to open sea.
A mere 1,000 miles later, they would find themselves on the pristine shores of our sister island of Tort...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I stood for a long time, holding my head high as I watched the slender structure floating in the sky, popping a fuzzy white cloud with the point of its spire.
The Sky Tower, the symbol and pride of Auckland, New Zealand, was the first thing I saw on...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Exercise can be painful! If you’ve ever done a really tough leg workout, you know what I’m talking about. Your muscles take a real beating. To make things worse, it’s impossible to escape the pain even a day or two later — those ten sets of squats wi...
DATE: Mar 21, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Betty Doyling
