“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, […]

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. –Jeff Daniels The real estate adage that seemingly everyone knows is “location, location, location.” The house in the swanky neighborhood is going to be more expensive than the run-down […]

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in ’78 was Santa Claus in shorts. –Dennis Franz The real estate adage that seemingly everyone knows is “location, location, location.” The house in the swanky neighborhood is going to be more expensive than the run-down claptrap fixer-upper […]

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. –Molly Ivins The real estate adage that seemingly everyone knows is “location, location, location.” The house in the swanky neighborhood is going to be more expensive than the run-down claptrap fixer-upper in a bad part of […]

In Texas we practically come out of the womb in jeans. –Kelly Clarkson The real estate adage that seemingly everyone knows is “location, location, location.” The house in the swanky neighborhood is going to be more expensive than the run-down claptrap fixer-upper in a bad part of town. The adage also applies in personal finance. […]

My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas. –Chris Young The real estate adage that seemingly everyone knows is “location, location, location.” The house in the swanky neighborhood is going to be more expensive than the run-down claptrap fixer-upper in a bad […]