by Sears Homes | Sep 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Friday afternoon, my newest book (co-authored with Dale Wolicki) came home. This is my seventh book but it’s always so exciting to see a long-awaited dream come to fruition. Dale and I toiled over this book for five years. Hopefully, we’ll sell out that...
by Sears Homes | Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Ever hear of schadenfreude? For years, I’d always called it, “The Crab Theory.” Schadenfreude is a German word that means delighting in the misfortune of others. I had never heard of this word until I was doing some research for my book The Ugly...
by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
This Sears Alhambra is in a section of town that was near Ida Barbour Park (public housing which has since been torn down). It’s been through many changes through the years, but is still in remarkably good condition. Notice how the red dumpster in the corner...
by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Today, the magazine is heavy on diet tips and light on home related topics, but it wasn’t always that way. In the early 1900s, Ladies’ Home Journal was (get ready), a magazine devoted to improving the lot of women who wanted to be homeowners, or women who...
by Sears Homes | Aug 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
In the mid-1880s, while working as a railway station agent in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Richard Warren Sears paid $50 for a shipment of watches that arrived at the train station and had been refused by a local merchant. Selling them to other railway agents and...
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