Hello, friends. Just a quick note to let you all know that my life, at last, seems to be settling. A full two months after the death of my mother, the fog has lifted and I find that I'm motivated...
A memory came to me this morning while I was walking the dog, a memory of those days when I was fresh out of college and just beginning to work for my father at the box factory. A salesman had ...
I am 53 years old. Never in my life have I allowed myself to buy a car I truly love...until now. This is the story of how I allowed myself to make a huge purchase just for the joy of it. And it w...
I've changed the way I shop over the past few years. And although the shift has been subtle, I've found that I'm much happier with the things I buy. In the past, my approach to shopping was sim...
It's always fun to unearth some esoteric piece of personal finance history. I know there are only a few nerds out there who care (hello, Grant Sabatier !), but those of us who care really care. ...
Last week, I raved about the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. These two Stanford design professors have taken design principles and applied them to helping people figur...
I am obsessed with the film Everything Everywhere All at Once . From the moment I saw the trailer, I knew the movie was meant for me. I was right. The film's bizarre blend of action, philosophy, ...
You hear the phrase "the game of life" all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-o8Spa4isQ There are books on Amazon instructing us on how to win at the "game of life" . Hell, Milton Br...
> Today, the Get Rich Slowly summer of books concludes with an excerpt > from Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away from Julien > and Kiersten Saunders. Jul...
> The following is from Taking Stock > by Jordan > Grumet with permission from Ulysses Press. Copyright © 2022 by > Jordan Grumet. This passage has been edited to be...