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Inga writes: "... I wanted to create a subconscious impression of someone who dwells among the cognitive-scenti, the kind of person for whom an evaluator would say, ‘Oh, we obviously don’t need to be testing YOU.’”

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Let Inga Tell You: Long term care insurance

LET INGA TELL YOU: It’s really easy to put your head in the sand about getting old and decrepit until you start hearing about friends’ parents, and even the friends themselves, requiring 24-hour care.

Crows prefer French fries in a McDonald’s bag over a brown paper bag.

Let Inga Tell You: The amazing secret life of crows

The clincher is that after you do all that texting and apping, they’re charging a flat fee of $10!

Let Inga Tell You: Fear of Parking Lots

“Reading a story in the paper the other day about various psychiatric diagnoses being lobbed at our President, I couldn’t help but concede that the DSM-V, the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, hasn’t spared any of us.” — Inga

Let Inga Tell You: We all have a diagnosis

“I like looking at my month-at-a-glance calendar and seeing everything right there.” — Inga

Let Inga Tell You: Calendar shaming

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Let Inga Tell You: More than you may want to know?

LET INGA TELL YOU: I didn’t jump on the ancestry band wagon right away since both my mother’s and father’s families kept good genealogical records back many generations — even centuries.
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Let Inga Tell You: Assault on family neighborhoods

LET INGA TELL YOU: Every day when I pick up my San Diego Union-Tribune, it seems that the City fathers (and mothers) have voted in another assault on single family neighborhoods, particularly those near the beach.
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Let Inga Tell You: Dishwasher wars revisited

LET INGA TELL YOU: A while back, I wrote about how Olof and I were engaged in dishwasher wars now that he had taken over this chore in retirement.
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Let Inga Tell You: Oreo

LET INGA TELL YOU: It’s ironic that only two weeks ago I wrote a column that included the saga of the death of a friend’s pet white rat, Snowball.
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Let Inga Tell You: Social media for dogs

LET INGA TELL YOU: When we take Lily out for a walk, there are certain places she sniffs and others where she sniffs but also pees.
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Let Inga Tell You: A tale of two rodents

LET INGA TELL YOU: The hysterical call came in at 9:30 one night.

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“When my car failed its smog test, I was sure I was being scammed.” — Inga

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Let Inga Tell You: Amazingly, it wasn’t a scam

LET INGA TELL YOU: When the service garage manager told me my car failed its smog test because I don’t drive on freeways enough, I was sure I was being scammed.

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Let Inga Tell You: Droning on

LET INGA TELL YOU: I’ve already written about the slide rule I bought Olof for Christmas that has warmed his geeky heart, and also the birthstone stud earrings I bought for my 8-year-old granddaughter — the first jewelry gift I’ve ever bought for a child or grandchild.
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Let Inga Tell You: Tidying; The Inga Method

LET INGA TELL YOU: You can hardly pick up a magazine these days without reading about the Japanese uber-organizer Marie Kondo whose best-selling book about tidying advises only keeping things that “spark joy.”
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Let Inga Tell You: It’s a question of balance

LET INGA TELL YOU: It’s a topic I’ve written about before, but “smart” appliances have totally run amok.
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Let Inga Tell You: The joy of granddaughters

LET INGA TELL YOU: I wrote last week about finding the ideal Christmas gift for Olof: a slide rule.
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Let Inga Tell You: A slide rule finds its forever home

LET INGA TELL YOU: It becomes harder and harder to find really special gifts for Olof at Christmas, especially when he has everything he wants, buys it himself if he doesn’t, and we’re always trying to downsize.
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Let Inga Tell You: Let St. Joseph sell your home for you

Looking for an appropriately warm fuzzy holiday topic for my column, it occurred to me that nothing says fuzzy like saints selling real estate.
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Let Inga Tell You: The ghosts of Christmas trees past

A few days ago I went to buy my Christmas tree and couldn’t help but reflect on the ghosts of Christmas trees past.
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Let Inga Tell You: The Abridged Olof

I may be the alleged writer in the family, but many people don’t know that the real talent in the family is Olof.
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Let Inga Tell You: Brick-and-mortar no more?

LET INGA TELL YOU: My grandchildren will never know what it was like for airline travel to be fun.
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Let Inga Tell You: My criminal past

LET INGA TELL YOU: I recently ran a column on the subject of teenage vandals on Halloween.

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