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Our Current House Plant Tour

I get asked all the time what my favorite house plants are and honestly, I love them all! There is not one houseplant (within reason…you probably won’t see me with a large cactus anytime soon), that I do not enjoy. One goal I have this year is sharing my houseplants …

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Introducing: Newlane University

Several years ago Ben Blair launched a startup company: an affordable online university called Newlane. He started the university with his education-tech-philosophy-collaborator (and my brother), Josh Stanley. I talked about the startup back in 2016 when they launched with a kickstarter — when it was still mostly an idea and …

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Economic Report: New home sales rise slightly, even as buyers see more affordability contraints

The numbers: Sales of newly built homes occurred at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 842,000 in December, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. That was 1.6% above the downwardly-revised pace of 829,000 in November. Analysts polled by MarketWatch had projected new-home sales to occur at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 875,000. Compared to …

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