Money
Our Town – October 19, 2017
The Soupster recounts that there are three ways to skin a Permanent Fund.
Read MoreOur Town – May 5, 2016
The Soupster encounters an old saying in real life.
Read MoreOur Town – October 22, 2015
The Soupster recounts strategies for dealing with an annual financial windfall.
Read MoreOur Town – July 16, 2015
The Soupster compares consumer choices.
Read MoreOur Town – May 7, 2015
The Soupster greets a secretive new Senior.
Read MoreOur Town – April 11, 2013
The Soupster contemplates the future.
Read MoreOur Town – November 1, 2012
Only 25 and Tim felt he was in a whole second life. He, alone, had to take care of 16-month-old Hazel as a single Dad for the next three days. Three days could be 30 diapers that would need changing. Could be more than 30. He shuddered. That morning, Tim’s wife Gretchen left town on…
Read MoreOur Town – August 23, 2012
After enduring a somewhat sketch marriage in her twenties, 34-year-old Annie was basically glad she had the romantic gumption to follow her heart and a charismatic fisherman to Our Town. But it gnawed at her that she had left a job as a retail store manager and could not find the equivalent employment here. Especially…
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