Have you heard about the real estate investor traveling the world to give away money to lucky scavengers? He started his game by hiding envelopes of cash around San Francisco and tweeting clues about their locations under his Twitter handle @HiddenCash. Whoever finds the cash gets to keep it. Simple as that. Originally, the benefactor […]
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Saturday Special: If Only We Knew…
If you were given the power to look into your future, would you? You know the possibilities as well as I do. Fortune… Fame… Lost Love… New Love… Horrific Tragedy… Thrilling Adventure… Would you look into the future if you could? I wouldn’t. I’ll take the good experiences as pleasant surprises. And the bad, well, […]
Gold Rush Surprise
If you found $28,000 in coins, you’d be pretty excited, right? Now imagine finding that much cash, in the form of coins so rare, that some of them are worth about a million dollars! I think I’d pass out. That’s what happened to a couple in California, minus the passing out part (at least as […]
Flight 12: Book #2 Available Now!
J. Carson Black is NOW BOARDING Flight 12! Flight 12 is the revolutionary new project from the New York Times Best Selling Authors who brought you the hugely successful Deadly Dozen. We call ourselves The Twelve. J. Carson Black’s Flight 12: A Laura Cardinal Thriller is available NOW. Who is Laura Cardinal? -You loved her in […]
Diane Capri Island
Welcome to Diane Capri Island! This blog you’ve navigated to is just one of many islands participating in the 2014 Summer Splash Blog Hop! The idea is to: Play around here on this site… Enter the Raffle below… Then splash on over to the Main Contest Page to enter the Grand Prize Contest there! Once you’re […]
Saturday Special: Where Do You Hide Things?
Remember a couple days ago when I wrote about people who stash large quantities of cash around their home? (No? You can find the post HERE.) I still think a bank is the best place for cash, but for those who do need to keep cash (or other hidden items…) at home, look at this […]
Money Stashers
How much cash do you have on hand? According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, approximately $1.28 trillion dollars in cash are in circulation in the United States. Most of that is in Federal Reserve notes. One economist estimates that there’s enough cash in circulation for every American to have about $1,300. Do you have that much […]
Where Is Madeleine McCann?
So many things can happen when we are not paying attention. Jess Kimball knows what Fatal Distraction is. Here’s a real life example. But first, a question for you. If you were vacationing in Portugal from the UK, and you had a three-year-old daughter, would you allow her to sleep with the door unlocked while […]
Saturday Special: Leaving Florida Behind
Around this time of year, I prepare to leave Florida behind and return to Michigan. Like a snowbird, I’ll retreat back to Florida again once Michigan starts to get too cool for comfort — meaning below 70 degrees on a regular basis. Which brings me to the first topic in this week’s Saturday Special. 1. I […]
What You Don’t See At Disney
I saw this cartoon the other day and it made me laugh. As a Florida snow bird, it’s fun to see the state from an outsider’s viewpoint. Look at central Florida on the map. Theme parks fill the whole thing! But there’s more to central Florida than Disney World. I know. It looks like a […]
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