TOP DRAWER INK NEWSLETTER

 

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December 2, 2006
Volume 4, Number 23
ISSN 1554-6330

In memory of Bev, gone one year today.

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Book Review
5. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

Here in Carpenter Country the latest good read was Nora Ephron’s book I Feel Bad About My Neck. It’s a funny essay crowded with commentary on topics that include aging, wrinkled necks and gray hair. The Carpenter Country mirror reflects a few laugh lines and silvery strands, too.

Scary, but bearable.

What’s more worrisome are those nutty senior moments when brains turn to mush while trying to do two things at the same time. Or having so many lists that the relevant one is lost in the shuffle. Forgetting names is no fun either.

And then there are the days when the car keys go missing.

Or worse.

Like last week at the gas station, an episode that involved leaping out of the driver’s seat, pushing the lock button and slamming the door - before realizing the key was still in the ignition.

But wait a minute. If memory serves correctly (smile), the exact same incident happened years ago, before gray hair and wrinkled necks. It should also be noted forgetting names has been a life-long predicament. And teens in the clan forget wallets frequently, too.

So it seems younger people are plagued by senior moments too. Whew! No more worrying about the big ‘A’!

Hanging on to that thought will probably stave off an anxiety attack while wandering around a crowded parking lot looking for the car.

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

Product Recalls
by
HL Carpenter

 

If you ‘shopped ‘til you dropped’ on the day after Thanksgiving, no doubt you noticed you had lots of company. According to the latest reports, sales on Black Friday totaled at least $8.96 billion.

Unfortunately a few of those purchases may turn out to be unsafe or defective. How can you find out which ones?

Read the entire article here

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

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TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW

by
HL Carpenter

 

Just One Thing
by John Mauldin, Editor
ISBN 0-471-73873-5
262 pages; hardcover; $24.95
John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2006

What’s the best way to make investing decisions?

Author, speaker and investor John Mauldin put that question to eleven well-known investors. Just One Thing is a collection of the answers he received, along with his own take on the topic.

Read the entire review here

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

Bias Boom
by
HL Carpenter

 

The total number of biases in the world surpassed 100 gazillion for the first time last week, according to the prejudice industry’s trade group, Wehateyou, Inc. That’s an exponential increase of a frintillion-fold from the prior count.

Read the rest here