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July 2016

July 10, 2016

Bloggy request: the parish nurse?

Does your parish have a "parish nurse"? If so, here's a quick request: could you...

July 10, 2016

Mosel Valley

Onward to Germany! Our first stop was Winningen, a small town on the Moselle River...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Netherlands

Now we’re in the Netherlands. (Again, pics and links to come.) It’s a funky country...

June 30, 2016

London, Part 2

So as it turns out, the internet connection in London was already very slow for...

June 24, 2016

What I saw at the Brexit

Well, not much, to be honest, by which I mean this: the agenda for the...

June 24, 2016

So, Brexit it is

So you all in the U.S. went to bed knowing the result of the Brexit...

June 23, 2016

Some London observations

Let me start by saying that my starting point as far as finances is to...

June 23, 2016

The female bridge experience: a London photoessay

Still planning on uploading more pictures from our sightseeing so far, but here's a quick...

June 18, 2016

London, Part 1

We're there! And here's a bit of a travel journal for both family/friends and blog...

June 15, 2016

Love is love is love is . . . hate?

The two emerging narratives coming across my facebook and twitter feeds could not be more...

June 13, 2016

“10 and change”: Retirement

The first installment in the Jane the Actuary "10 and change" project: Let's talk about...

June 13, 2016

The Orlando attack and the starfish story

So here's the deal: I spent all of Saturday travelling; Sunday noontime (UK time) we...

June 10, 2016

The Jane the Actuary “10 and change” challenge

Yeah, I told you about the "100 and change" project sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation....

June 09, 2016

Seven “Brock Turner” observations

In case you've been living under a rock, a 20-year old man was sentenced to...

June 07, 2016

Should “Hispanic” be a race?

Or, more precisely, should the US Census Bureau's racial categories include as a "race" the...

June 06, 2016

Should Islam abandon the Hajj?

Yeah, I know, not really any of my business whether Muslims believe that their religion...

June 05, 2016

The “True Minimum Wage” = the Shadow Economy wage

So I checked my twitter feed this morning and saw a link to an article...

June 04, 2016

How to earn $100 million

Oh, man. I am so going to do this. All I need to do is...

June 03, 2016

A helpful tool: the Longevity Illustrator

From the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries: the Longevity Illustrator. It's...

June 03, 2016

The Day Care/Preschool Elixer

It's baa-aack -- the dream that we have a way of fixing poor kids right...

June 01, 2016

M.A.D., 2016 edition

You remember MAD, right? (I put the periods in the title so that it's clearer...

June 01, 2016

The latest on affordable housing – and what does it mean, anyway?

So the Chicago Tribune reported on a new report on affordable housing the other day,...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Memorial Day Parade 2016

Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched. In...

May 29, 2016

On Obama’s Hiroshima speech – and a sense of history

On Friday, May 27, President Obama, in Japan for the G-7 summit, made a trip...

May 26, 2016

How do you identify?

Transsexual -- what an archaic term! How quickly we've moved from the notion that a...

May 23, 2016

Art and Memory in Elgin

What happens when the meaning of an artwork is forgotten, then half-rediscovered? In Elgin, in...

May 22, 2016

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night – but snakes are another story

This is either a humorous little nothing story, or points to a real problem. As reported...

May 22, 2016

Dear Chicago: Be Kind to Tourists

AirBnB has been in the news in Chicago lately, with disputes about how to regulate residents...

May 21, 2016

Latest “rights” fight: the “right to bury”

From the National Catholic Reporter, "Kentucky archdiocese nixes Supreme Court design on gay couple’s gravestone":...

May 20, 2016

Is it just to pay low wages . . .

if the alternative is no wages? That's the natural follow up to my comment on...