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Alberta

Halloween Disappointment

November 2, 2009
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Dear Alberta,
I’m so disappointed. We found our dream home, brand new, in a beautiful new neighborhood. About two weeks ago I started decorating for Halloween. Ira and I carved jack-o-lanterns for the front porch and I have a jangly plastic skeleton that I hang on the door and phony spider webs. On Saturday night I [...]

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Alberta on Staging

October 28, 2009
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(Alberta helps me out with questions occasionally with her unique point of view – Jay)
Dear Alberta…I love your old fashioned common sense and your sense of humor so I’m sure you’ll understand my dilemma.  It’ s time to sell our house. The kids are scattered around the country and we heard about deals on condos [...]

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Alberta Deals with Conflict

October 28, 2009
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Alberta helps me out with questions occasionally with her unique point of view – Jay)
Dear Alberta…my husband and I are finally ready to buy a new home. We’ve been driving around looking at neighborhoods and we can’t seem to agree on anything. We’ve been camping out in his dumpy old townhouse since before we got [...]

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Introducing Alberta

October 1, 2009
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Occasionally I come across a question that I just don’t know how to answer without writing an e-book. My friend Alberta thinks it’s because I’m a typical insensitive male whose empathetic tendencies were dulled long ago…but she likes me anyway!
She’s agreed to tackle some of these questions for me when they come up. To say [...]

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