Articles

ADOPTION ISSUES

Breaking Down Adoption Agency Costs

Using the Internet to Find Birth Parents

Should Adopted Children Know Their Birth Parents?

Alaska International Adoption Agency Streamlines Russian Adoption Process

BOATING

The Boat Wizard Blog

No Mardi Gras (originally published in the September 2005 issue of Latitudes & Attitudes magazine)

Daring Rescuers Awarded Hanson Medal (originally published in the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of BoatU.S. magazine)

Fractional Ownership Gives You a Piece of the Action (originally published in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of BoatU.S. magazine)

Marine Lending Gets Back on Track (originally published in the May/Jun 2010 issue of BoatU.S. magazine)

How To Sail in a Kayak

How To Build Row Boats

Process of Packing an Anchor Chain

How To Finance a Boat with Poor Credit

How To Repair or Replace a Wood Railing on a Sailboat

How To Search for the Title on a Boat

Do It Yourself PVC Rod Holder

How To Use Trim Tabs for Better Turning in a Boat

How To Make a Plywood Kayak

How To Avoid Sales Taxes on Boats

How To Start a Sailing Business

BUSINESS

Mohomine Drills into Rich Vein of Venture Capital

Regulation D Helps Start-Ups SCOR Capital

How To Process Your Own Credit Cards

TARP Funds and Where They Went

General Partnerships Vs. Limited Partnerships

Types of Microfinance Credit Schemes

Why Do Some Firms Engage in Currency Trading?

Getting a Job in Currency Trading

How To Become a Currency Broker

How To Take a Company Public with Penny Stocks

How To Become an Institutional Stock Trader

COPYWRITING

Fictional Finances: Charlie Harper

Fictional Finances: Michael Westen

Fictional Finances: Neal Caffrey

Noosa Tropicana Resort

ECONOMICS

May You Live in Interesting Times (originally published in the Jan 2011 issue of Carnet Atlantique)

GENERAL INTEREST

Marine Corps PT Exercises

Brief Primer on Whiskey

The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve Review

Calling In The One Case Study

New Orleans Begins Preparations As Hurricane Gustav Threatens

Evacuating Hurricane Gustav

With Hurricane Gustav 2008, Louisiana Looking at Katrina, Rita Redux

About Affordable International Living

Beer Pong Rules

How To Use Nitrox

INSURANCE

Scripps, Blue Cross Renew Contract

What Can Universal Health Care Provide?

Health Insurance for the Self Employed

How To Identify Factors that Effect Life Insurance Premiums

How To Calculate the Economic Benefit of Life Insurance

How To Change From HMO to Medicare

About Medical Insurance Careers

What Is an Annuity Contract?

What Is a Medical Co-Pay?

What Is a PPO?

What Is an Immediate Annuity?

How To Buy a Term Life Insurance Policy

INVESTING

Penny Stocks: The Dream, the Reality, and the Strategy

Bonds and Yields

Top 5 Best Free Desktop Stock Tickers

How Stock Market Games Help Beginners

How To Finance Precious Metals

IPO Advantages

How To Day Trade Equities

Investing in Stock Options

Common Stock Vs. Preferred Stock

Options Contract Trading Education

How To Invest Money in Market Mutual Funds

Stock Trading Simulation

Defining a Purchasing Margin

About Fibonacci Techniques

Partnership Prop Stock Trading Account

Stock Trading Basics

Stock Options & Warrants

How Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?

Mutual Fund Benefits

The Risks of Currency Day Trading

How Is a Stock Trade Executed on the NYSE?

What Is a Maintenance Margin?

About Online Investment Brokers

About the NASDAQ Penny Stock Lists

What Is the Difference Between Authorized Stock and Issued Stock?

What Are Long Stocks?

What Is a Hedge Fund?

What Is a Commodity Broker?

What Are Domestic Stocks?

What Is a Stock Index?

What Is the Difference Between a Hedge Fund and a Mutual Fund?

Stockbroker Education

What Are the Fundamentals of Swing Trading?

What Is MER in Mutual Funds?

About Owning Airline Stocks

What Is an Exchange Traded Fund?

What Is Option Stock?

How To Calculate Stock Basis for Exercised Options

How To Trade Bulletin Board Stocks

About Inverse Bond Funds

What Is an Open Ended Mutual Fund?

Buying Index Tracking Stocks

Spotting Dishonest Stockbrokers

Selling Stock Certificates

How To Invest in Oil Futures

How To Compare Stock Prices

How To Invest in Judgments

How To Move Stock Options

How To Select Managed Futures Funds

PERSONAL FINANCE

Cut Your Phone Bill in Half — Use VoIP Telephone

Teach Kids To Save with a Toy ATM Bank

What Happens If You Owe the IRS?

Budgeting for Periodic Expenses

How To Pay Your Bills Off in 5 Years

How To Pay Back a Line of Credit

How To Collateralize a Line of Credit

What Is a Time Deposit?

What Is a Bank Loan?

What Is a Credit Reporting Agency?

What Is a Promissory Note Loan?

What Does It Mean to Consolidate Debt?

What Is a Write-Off on a Credit Report?

What Is a Regular Savings Account?

What Is an Interest Bearing Checking Account?

POLITICS

San Diego Mayoral Candidates Square Off on Tech Issues

House Vote on Bailout Bill Reveals Cowardice

REAL ESTATE

What Is a Sub-Prime Mortgage?

How To Determine Tax Basis on Real Estate

About HUD Listings

What Is a VA Loan?

What Is Hard Money Lending?

RETIREMENT PLANNING

Credit Card Debt Vs. Retirement Savings

Self-Directed IRAs Guide

Self-Directed IRA Investments

How To Cash in an IRA to Pay Credit Card Debt

Rules for Planning an Annuity with Retirement Funds

Effect of IRA & 401K Contributions to Stock Prices

About Retirement Stock Trading Accounts

About International Retirement Communities

What is a Self-Directed IRA?

How To Use an IRA to Invest in Real Estate Property

How To Invest in a Personal Business from a 401K

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Deadly Poison May Hold Key to Cancer Drug

SHORT STORIES

Rough Trade (Submitted to a 700-word maximum short story contest)

Extreme Unction (My entry into the 2009 Popular Fiction Awards)

TRAVEL

One Night in Novosibirsk

Adventures in Absinthe

La Table des Oliviers

La Nuit Americaine

Moving Overseas with a Dog

How To Rent a Car in Mexico