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Family is the Game Plan

Fernando Mendoza is an odd name for a Heisman Trophy candidate college quarterback, much less one from Number One ranked Indiana, which hadn’t won the Big Ten for 58 years until last Saturday. Fernando ended up in Bloomington via Miami and Berkeley, California. His brother Alberto was already there, also

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Amazin Opportunity

Take a flyer with me today. This is a blog about change, race, real estate values and the chance to make a fortune if my

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Gratitude

Written June 19, 2018 This isn’t a blog I really want to write. But I feel like I can’t write anything else right now so

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It Spoke to Me

I bought a gorgeous piece of art last Saturday, a painting of an “L” Train clacking through an apartment jungle in Chicago. At least, that’s

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Taster’s Choice

Last week in Palo Alto my fiancé, Stephanie, and I went to a unique coffee shop called Philz. Philz distinguishes itself from other coffee chains

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Negotiating Two Oceans

It was time to change oceans. John and Julie King, retired and fed up with California taxes and congestion, needed an experienced crew to take

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Should We Forget?

I have been struggling to write this blog for over a year now, but it is a topic I really want to discuss, because it

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