Category: The Big Picture

Death and Dying, and Two Tears

Monday, January 30, 2017 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Maxine Friedman died at 10:59 a.m. Central Time on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. That was a little more than a month after she turned on her hospice care and about three hours after I dashed off a short piece about how, all of a sudden, she seemed determined to exit […]

Further Last Acts of Love

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8am
By John Friedman

Four days before my father died I asked him, as I had each day during the past many weeks, whether he was happy to be waking up. He always indicated he was — he was not able to speak via words back then — until the Saturday before he died […]

First Week of January Test (2015 Edition)

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 1pm
By John Friedman

The other day, in the wee early hours of the Monday of All Mondays, subscribers to my email list received, just like clockwork (just like calendarwork?), their FWoJT email (their First Week of January Test email). This year the Monday of All Mondays — I speak here, of course, of […]

90 Days of Rush Limbaugh: It’s Enough to Make Me Miss Dave Ramsey

Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 1pm
By John Friedman

It’s been 90 days since I first heard Rush Limbaugh come out of my radio where once Dave Ramsey had been. Pre-2014, I’d been doing here and there 15-minute Dave Ramsey listenings as a part of my morning twa-let, and can quite unequivocally state that, even though I often disagreed […]

John Friedman Financial’s Statement of Fundamental Principals, Number One: Financial Health Defined

Monday, January 6, 2014 at 4pm
By John Friedman

This is a long’ish piece — about 2,400 words. It might take you twenty minutes or more to read it. It might’ve taken me twenty years or more to think it. And it for-sure took me many, many hours to do my best to make it entertaining as well as […]

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