The TV series had made her a household name… but now, she was appearing at the dinner theater… remembering her co-stars, famous or slight… saying things like: “Oh yes, very memorable! Terrific fun! The times we had!”
Near my apartment in downtown Oakland, here’s what I have seen: At 4 o’clock in the morning, I go out for an early coffee at all-night convenience store a block away. No one is around. There is a great stillness, the peace between the night and the first grey light of dawn. And yet, there’s the skunk, a thick slightly sickening burning smell coming from the empty parking lot across the street. A security guard is doing his rounds and trailing behind him are these ghost-like clouds illuminated by the security lights.
Many readers responded to my original essay on our debt-driven way of living in “Going Broke on $44,500 a Year,” published in the San Jose Mercury News. Here are some of the suggestions that they offered to solve the middle class debt crisis.
Are you careful with money, yet still sinking into debt? The decline of the middle class began in the 1980s, when social values eroded and warnings against debt were cast aside.