Karen,If you find the address or location and would like me to take a look at it, I will be in Las Vegas for a four-day birthday celebration beginning tomorrow.

I'm a huge National Night Out proponent. On the first Tues in August, neighbors are encouraged to meet each other. I even solicit landlords to donate $40 each to offset our block party expenses. (Here's my new BP post...

Doreen has since paid us off, and now she’s celebrating big time.

Until I see price increases through the Spring of 2013, I'm not celebrating quite yet.

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Every time I hear about a question like this I think about cultures of people.

Asian homeowners' barrier is not only in language, mostly in culture.

For instance, I know that I do not feel very safe wandering around by myself in many latin American Countries as both cultural attitudes and laws have not seemed to progress much in those countries.

I took a BS from Oglethorpe University in Business and Computer science, minored in Japanese Language and Culture, and concentrated in Economics.

One piece at a time b)Take your big goal and break it down into small enough steps that you are sure that you can achieve them c)Along with each step set up a time frame that each step must be accomplished in. d)Make sure that each step to the goal is measurable so that you can celebrate each step of the way. e)Be sure to celebrate each small step on the way to your one big goal.