Who doesn’t love to receive good things in the mail? Don’t you just get all warm and tingly when, amidst the Costco flyers and PG&E bills, you find something you really want? Such is the joy of the Apple-a-Month Club, from Green Apple Books in San Francisco. My first goodie arrived last week, packaged in…Continue reading Apple-a-Month Club
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New California law requiring Amazon to collect sales tax helps brick & mortar stores
Beginning Saturday, Amazon will charge sales tax to California residents thanks to a 2011 tax law that is about to go into effect. If you keep getting letters from the California State Board of Equalization asking for unpaid taxes on goods purchased online, you can blame it on Amazon. Citing a 1992 Supreme Court ruling…Continue reading New California law requiring Amazon to collect sales tax helps brick & mortar stores
An Election Year Message from Green Apple Books
The folks at Green Apple Books give you one more reason to shop indie in this hilarious “election year message.” Play it. Laugh. Share it. Then get thee to Green Apple, or whatever your local bookstore is, and shop with the people who know about books.
Hipster Ariel & the color red – and other strange tumblr phenomena
You may have heard about the Hipster Ariel Meme sweeping Tumblr. Unless you were born before 1995, in which case you’re probably still asking, whenever the word comes up, “What’s tumblr, again?” Maybe, like me, you signed up for a tumblr account but have never used it and have long since forgotten your username…Continue reading Hipster Ariel & the color red – and other strange tumblr phenomena
Some Things Are Worth Keeping
About seven years ago, my mother moved out of the house we grew up in. The piano, along with so many other things, didn’t make the cut. In the October issue of Real Simple Magazine, Lee Woodruff , author of Those We Love Most, writes about the decision she and her husband made in 2007…Continue reading Some Things Are Worth Keeping