Janet Darrow's (janetldarrow) Blog

Location, Location, Location! It is generally considered good wisdom to buy the worst house in a highly-valued neighborhood. BUT if you drill down a little further, not all low-priced properties in a good neighborhood have good value. If the house lies on a busy street or has some other factor th...

When I got divorced, I changed overnight from Janet Darrow-Winter to Janet Darrow, reversing my name change from twenty years before. My email address changed from Janet.darrow.winter@gmail.com to… well, not Janet.darrow. It appears that there are a plethora of Janet Darrow’s walking this earth i...

     We are all a sum of our parts.  Take these seemingly unrelated bits of information and mix together:  I was a drama kid.  In high school and college, my friends and I wrote clever rhymes about each other.  I have an interesting network of friends.  l like music, but can’t sing a note.  I liv...

When my Mother passed away, I called AOL to cancel her email account. “Oh, I am so sorry for your loss. Are you sure we can’t convince you to keep the account?” “No, she won’t need it. She passed away.” “I’m so sorry. There are a lot of great features. Maybe we can offer a discount?” “No, she’s d...