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Thursday, December 17, 2009

End of the Year Stuff.....


The end of the calendar year is approaching and there are lots of things to do in addition to any holiday celebrations. One of those is check your FSA balance. If you have pre-tax money deducted from your paycheck for medical expenses, you may have a balance remaining that needs to be spent before 12/31. Eligible expenses include things like over the counter meds, glasses, eye exams, and other medical expenses. I notice that some eligible expenses are indicated on register receipts with a special mark at my drug store. Just something else to think about in these busy days.

Favorite History Books

  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
  • American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
  • American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
  • Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
  • Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
  • From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
  • Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
  • Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
  • Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
  • Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
  • Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
  • The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
  • The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
  • The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

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