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Paul&Paul – Chapter 4: “Eight”

April 7, 2019 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

     “Hi Paul,” Christine said with a smile and small giggle as he walked by her and two of her third grade friends.  Her friends giggled too and moved closer to Christine.  They stood in a row, shoulder to shoulder, at the edge of the recess lawn.  A couple acres of old, dense west […]

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Paul&Paul – Chapter 3: “Seven”

April 7, 2019 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

     “Shleigh Shleigh Shleigh.  Praise the Lord!  Thank you Jesus!  We praise your name!  Shleigh Shleigh Shleigh Shleigh Shleigh!”  Davion got it first.  Before the rest of Paul’s 2nd grade class in the church’s elementary school.  Davion, the biggest and oldest of the 20 kids on the floor in a circle in the back […]

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Paul&Paul – Chapter 2: “Six”

April 7, 2019 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

A small white saucer with a mismatched mug on it floated silently through the air across the dining room toward the hall that led to dad and mom’s room.  The side of the mug read “World’s Best Dad” and was steaming with the black tea mom drank, but no one was carrying it.  From deep […]

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King Trump America – Money Might Be Right

February 4, 2017 by LivingReturns 1 Comment

Liberals have frothy group seizures every time Trump trots out yet another tyrannical order.  They’re sure he’s turning the country into a Trump branded white club America where dissenters will be forced to twerk heterosexually until they give up on democracy. Long live the king of the United State of Trump! Are Liberals overreacting? It’s […]

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Filed Under: Freedom Tagged With: American Dream, Freedom, Slavery

American Slave: Freedom Killer #2 – Prices increase faster than your paycheck

January 28, 2017 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

Your income probably doesn’t keep up with price increases (inflation).  How much more do you pay for houses, cars, meat, sugar, vegetables, and milk than 10 years ago?  Did your salary go up by the same percent?  Answer: likely not even close. Even if you look at the politically adjusted census bureau data for historical […]

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Filed Under: Financial Freedom Tagged With: American Dream, Financial Freedom, Financial Independence, Indentured Servant, Retirement, Slavery, Wealth

American Slave: Freedom Killer #1.1 – You, Dude, It’s You

January 28, 2017 by LivingReturns 1 Comment

Let’s face it: You are your worst enemy if you allow it, and the child apple tends not to fall far from the parental tree.  Ya, ya, you were born poor into a debt slave family, raised as a slave by your parents, taught as a slave via public education, and encouraged to stay a slave by commercialized media.  […]

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Filed Under: Financial Freedom Tagged With: Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wealth

Paul&Paul – Chapter 1: “Five”

January 22, 2017 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

They weren’t warm enough this early in the morning, the flannel pajamas mommy made. They were blue with green pickles embroidered on them, 5 pickles on his shirt over his tummy, one for each birthday. That was Paul’s favorite part. But he was so cold and his eyes were sticky and the frowning church adults […]

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How Much Of My Life’s Time Do I Spend Buying The Rest Of My Lifetime?

January 22, 2017 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

In 1999, when I was 27 and the world was about to end due to the Y2K computer bug and another thousand years of decadence, the technology company I’d worked at for one year gave me a choice: Option A – move from the west coast to the east coast with more stock, more pay, […]

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Filed Under: Financial Freedom Tagged With: Career, Financial Independence, Lifestyle, Millionaire, Wealth

Breaking News: Bacterial Contaminant Discovered in Global Water Supplies

January 22, 2017 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

An international initiative to measure water quality in the world’s 50 largest metropolitan areas using enhanced biosensor test systems revealed a previously undetected bacterial contaminant in all water samples called I.Coli (Idiocia Coli).  I. Coli is part of the fecal coliform sub-group  , bacterial strains that enter the water supply primarily via human waste.  However, […]

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Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Drinking Water, Water Supply

Are You An American Slave?

January 22, 2017 by LivingReturns Leave a Comment

Are you free because you are a citizen of the United States?   That’s what we’re taught. We all stand at sporting events to sing that we live in the “land of the free,” or at least most of us still stand.  So, here’s a simple question for you: What is freedom?  How would you explain it to a […]

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Filed Under: Financial Freedom Tagged With: American Dream, Financial Freedom, Financial Independence, Indentured Servant, Retirement, Slavery, Wealth

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