Harvard Research Finds Spending Money to Save Time Boosts Couples’ Relationship Satisfaction

Spend a little more money to have more free time and use it to spend time together. It seems like a pretty solid formula

Family sues Delta and KLM for US$200,000, claiming they were attacked by bed bug infestation on flight

I’m surprised that’s not a bigger issue since so many people are getting on and off of airplanes every single day. Just another thing you didn’t know you needed to be worried about

I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 12: Why Some Citizens Would Rather Face the Comet Than the Government

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

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• MTV Music's Last Song: 'Video Killed the Radio Star' - I’m glad they decided to give playing music another try at the end

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• Maryland man collects his second big lottery prize eight years later - Well that hardly seems fair

• Idaho man kicked in genitals by child he allegedly tried to kidnap - It’s probably a pretty good self-defense strategy to teach people

• Man who moved into bear country demands bear respect zoning laws - Maybe don’t move into a place that could be described as “Bear country”