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A memoir is not “everything that happened.” It is one life, shaped around a question the reader can feel. For you, that question is already sitting in the material: What does it take to leave home, make a career in real estate across the country, come back to Topeka, and still try to change the place you came from? The techniques below are how you turn videos, public comments, and memory into pages. 1. Pick the book, not the whole life Biography tries to cover every year. Memoir covers a through-line . Useful frames for yours: Leaving and returning — 1979 license, 1983 Macerich, the years away, the ~2000 homecoming. The dealmaker vs. the city — TIF/CID, public comment, campaigns. What you want the next generation to inherit — family, Shawnee County, the town you want someone to come home to. Everything that does not serve that line goes in an appendix, a later volume, or a blog post. That cut is the first real writing decision. 2. Two voices on every page Good memoir uses two s...

Fw: Last Day to Create Your FREE Grandparents’ Day Billboard

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Henry McClure 785.383.9994  Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Get Outlook for Android From: Brian Kuermaier <bkuermaier@lamar.com> Sent: Sunday, 13 September 2026 10:07:01 To: mcre13@gmail.com <mcre13@gmail.com> Subject: Last Day to Create Your FREE Grandparents’ Day Billboard   Submit a photo today and see your grandparents featured on a Lamar digital billboard near you! ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­...

From Merced to The Big Money Show

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  PROFILE · SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 A deep dive on Taylor Riggs, CFA — the Fox Business co-anchor who treats a balance sheet like a beat and a marathon like a career plan. By Henry McClure · MCRE Media Most business-television anchors can read a ticker. A smaller number can read a 10-K without blinking. A still smaller number can do both live, two hours a day, with a Chartered Financial Analyst charter on the rĂ©sumĂ©, a master’s in finance from Johns Hopkins, a law-school night shift in progress, seventeen finished marathons, and two young daughters at home. That is the stack Taylor Riggs brings to Fox Business Network’s The Big Money Show . The show airs weekdays from noon to 2 p.m. Eastern. Riggs co-hosts with Jackie DeAngelis, Brian Brenberg, and Dagen McDowell. The format is a roundtable: markets, the Fed, earnings, inflation, housing, and the household consequences of all of it. Her public case for the job is not that Wall Street needs another talking head. It is that ordinary v...

No respect

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Rodney Dangerfield spent decades telling America that he got “no respect.” At 72, after a lifetime of turning rejection and failed relationships into punchlines, he married Joan Child, the Santa Monica florist who had spent ten years seeing the tender man behind the red tie. Their love story began in 1983, when Rodney wandered into her flower shop and delivered an opening line strange enough to sound like one of his routines. Joan recognized him immediately. She had first watched him on television as a teenager, and now the comedian she remembered from “The Tonight Show” was standing at her counter. Rodney asked what kind of drugs she liked. Joan, raised in a conservative Utah Mormon family, innocently answered, “Antibiotics, I guess.” Rodney was charmed. He kept coming back, often while she arranged flowers, until those visits became something both of them expected. Years later, Joan remembered the first sight of him with extraordinary warmth. “For me, it was love at first...

Karma

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A guest sued after claiming an Airbnb host sent a security-camera image of him with another woman to his wife. Shawn Mackey rented a home in Memphis, Tennessee, in September 2022 for a weekend with friends. During the stay, host Pamela Fohler accused him of breaking house rules involving additional guests. After checking out, Mackey was charged an additional $502.46. He disputed the charge and left an unfavorable review. According to his lawsuit, Fohler later texted him a security-camera image showing him entering the property with another woman. She allegedly asked whether she should send the photos to his wife or whether he would. Days later, Mackey claimed his wife received the image at her work email from an unfamiliar account. He alleged the incident damaged his marriage and caused emotional distress. Fohler denied creating the email account or sending the image to his wife. Mackey sued Fohler and Airbnb in federal court in 2023. ...