Merry Christmas!

It wasn’t until the morning of Thanksgiving that I realized, “oh, this is Thanksgiving. This is a holiday!” and then decided to take off a few hours from school and work. So for Christmas I wanted to do something more. It doesn’t make any sense to live at home, educate yourself and make your schedule if you can’t enjoy the holidays with your family without worrying about finishing a paper, reading a book, or writing blog posts. Yes, blog posts. I’m afraid they’re going to be very scarce and perhaps non-existant this week. I hope you don’t mind. I’ve tried…

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The Ritual

Here is another performance of the ritual wherein I open up my “Add New Post” window between 8 and 9am and stare blankly at the screen for 3 minutes and 47 seconds, after which I bleakly begin an unoriginal, boring and pointless blog post so I can say that I have posted something every day. It really is good discipline. I tend to think that one needs to write only when you are “inspired.” Of course, I make myself inspired pretty quickly if I need to…but that only applies to fiction, so I’m a little lost when it comes to…

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Happy Wednesday

You may have noticed a few troubling things developing on my blog. 1) I have very boring and non-creative post titles. A few months ago I would have been ashamed to start this off with a “Happy Wednesday” but look at what I’m doing now! 2) I haven’t posted much about economics or politics in the last week or so. Why? Everyone else is, and I feel that there really is not much I can contribute to the discussion. I feel like I can still support liberty by just being a normal human being who does other things besides watch…

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A Most Unfortunate Catastrophe

My parents have a very large walk-in closet in their room, which they’ve intended to convert into a bathroom for the last 5 to 10 years. They are just getting around to it now. So yesterday my dad and the girls were working on it. Someone (who will remain unnamed) put a dirty paintbrush in the sink (this is in the other upstairs bathroom that we’ve always had), closed the drain, and turned the water on…intending to come back in about 30 seconds to turn it off. And of course, if the person got distracted, there’s always that safety drain…

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To Try…Essayer

The word “essay” comes from the French, “essayer” which means “to try” or “to attempt.” I haven’t written many essays in my lifetime. Maybe 10 at the most. And a few of those would probably be more correctly called reports. Today I enrolled in the “Introduction to Logic” course that the Mises Academy is offering for January. When I was looking at the course details of it a couple weeks ago, I got worried when it mentioned something around writing essays. I love writing, but as I’m sure you understand, writing fiction is so much different than essay writing. No…

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A New Look…Again

It seems that girls have a reputation for always buying new shoes, dresses, etc…well, it is much easier (and cheaper!) for me to instead change my website theme every few days. So just think of this as a phase, hopefully I’ll grow out of the irresistible desire to install a new theme regularly. Why did I change, again? – I had very good intentions to write more for my site. But I really am too busy to write enough to use a magazine-style theme. – There were some problems with my former theme that I didn’t discover until a week or two…

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Hello, Thursday!

You probably didn’t read “Bleak House” by Dickens anytime recently (if you did, and you actually read the whole thing, congratulations!) but if you recall, there’s a rather funny line in it that I thought of this morning. Well, it isn’t an extremely funny line. Dickens was good at introducing comic relief characters who were, really, very funny. No one but a Scrooge could help laughing at Mrs. Jiggleby and her children tumbling up and down the stairs while she devotes all her attentions to helping these poor orphaned children on the bank of some obscure river in Africa. But…

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A Tale of a Girl and Her Books

So I thought that yesterday would be ordinary. My mistake. It wasn’t. It was far from ordinary. My parents are working on a remodeling project in their room. They had this large bookshelf that they didn’t want to haul down our narrow stairs…and then where? No one relished the idea of carrying it out to the barn through all the snow, and there certainly wasn’t room downstairs for it. So, I walked into the room and said, “hey, how is it going?” And my dad had an epiphany. I don’t know if it was technically an epiphany, but he had…

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An Ordinary Tuesday Morning

After contemplating the title of this post, I realized that it isn’t really true. Every Tuesday is different, in some sense, from the last Tuesday, so how can I say it is “ordinary”? But at least it means that nothing extraordinary has happened today. My mother is waiting for me to clean up my room. You see, my room is where people iron their clothes, so the ironing board is always set up. It is right next to my closet (if you can call it that…more like a cubby hole) so the ironing board becomes very handy for throwing my…

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Holiday Special on Economics Tutoring!

I’m feeling pretty generous right now, so I decided to offer a special deal on the tutoring rates. If you aren’t really sure how it would go and don’t want to commit to anything, I will give you two weeks of tutoring absolutely free. You email me at econtutor(at)savannahliston(dot)com and tell me what you’re interested in. Maybe something like, “you know, I don’t really understand all of this about QE2 and the Fed…what is it all about?” Or “I had to read part of The Wealth of Nations for school and I don’t know what to think of Adam Smith…

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