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My Totally Unexpected $1,000 Payday From Hollywood

Jeff D. Opdyke · October 1, 2021 ·

The Benefits of Pursuing a Stupid Dream It’s not an Oscar or an Emmy, but I’ll still take it. I awoke a couple of weeks ago to …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 30, 2021 ·

The Horse Is Out of the Barn I come to today’s dispatch by way of a reader named Patrick. Patrick asked what might just be one of the …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 29, 2021 ·

Time to go way out on a thin limb. We are just over a year away from the 2022 mid-term elections that will see a host …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 25, 2021 ·

Change happens, whether “the system” likes it or not. Of course, the system is always late to the party. At first it refuses to go. Then …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 24, 2021 ·

With apologies for stealing from a dead guy (New York Yankees great, Yogi Berra), “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Just …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 21, 2021 ·

I have a friend. She’s in real estate. She’s mad at me. She asked me about earning 10% annual interest in a …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 19, 2021 ·

Plus All the Signs Say Inflation Is Here to Stay Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 18, 2021 ·

Rain on your wedding day. If you believe in old wives’ tales, clouds spitting down on your “I …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 16, 2021 ·

Monday rolled around—7 a.m. I was still in bed, stuck in the neverland of partial, morning lucidity. And my phone chirped. I …

Jeff D. Opdyke · September 15, 2021 ·

In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of... The cow jumping over the moon. If you’re a …