TOP DRAWER INK NEWSLETTER

 

Here's the latest issue of Top Drawer Ink, the newsletter written by author HL Carpenter that's chock full of humor and common sense information.

Share the fun! You may re-distribute Top Drawer Ink as long as the entire newsletter is left intact. Please respect our copyrights.

Top Drawer Ink is self-syndicated. Send reprint, licensing, syndication or other inquiries to editor -at- TopDrawerInkCorp.com.

***

July 22, 2006
Volume 4, Number 14
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country Essay

2. Top Drawer Article

3. Top Drawer Tips

4. Top Drawer Book Review

5. Top Drawer Satire

***

CARPENTER COUNTRY

What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

Today in Carpenter Country we’re honoring diversity in people. In this case Trekkers and Settlers.

Trekkers will pack a bag in a minute. To them travel, no matter how hard or for what reason, is an adventure, fun, the chance to explore different places.

Settlers will stow the suitcase in the closet. To them the best adventures can be found at home.

Both have done their part to shape history and make life a little more interesting.

For instance, Native American trekkers took many trips. Every spring and fall the men journeyed north and south following the buffalo. Women stayed home to keep the teepees up and the campfires burning so the tribe could continue to grow.

In Europe, Gypsies carted all their possessions from place to place in family caravans. Some moved to escape famine, to search for work - or maybe they just liked to travel. A few parked their wagons permanently and remained to diversify a culture.

Early settlers wended their way west in every possible conveyance. Most pressed onward to see the Pacific. A lot stopped when they tired, built homesteads and created a nation.

Millions of immigrants sailed to America, disembarked at Ellis Island, spread out all over the country and helped fill the new states. At least that many stayed where they were and reconstructed their homelands.

So here’s a big hooray for Trekkers and Settlers. In Carpenter Country we have both and each keeps trying to convert the other.

Most likely neither will ever make history, but when one packs a bag and the other unpacks it - life can sure get interesting.

***

TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

Increased Deposit Insurance for Retirement Accounts

by
HL Carpenter

Got CD’s in your IRA? If so, consider holding those certificates of deposit at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured bank or savings institution.

Read the entire article here

***

TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

***

TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW

by
HL Carpenter

The Wal-Mart Effect
by Charles Fishman
ISBN 1-59420-076-9
294 pages; hardcover; $25.95
The Penguin Press, New York, 2006

What type of Wal-Mart shopper are you? Champion, Enthusiast, Conflicted or Rejecter? Don’t rush to answer, because it doesn’t really matter. Whatever attitudinal slot you fit yourself into, it’s likely you spend a fair amount of money there.

Read the entire review here

***

TOP DRAWER SATIRE

Twosday

by
HL Carpenter

Remember that project you promised to complete on the second Tuesday of next week? The due date may be closer than you think. A pro-business nonprofit called Eight Day Week plans to petition the US Time and Hour Department to add an extra Tuesday – tentatively called Twosday - to the current calendar.

Read the rest here