I read a lot of money books. As a result, a large section of my large library is devoted to books about personal finance. (And if I hadn’t purged hundreds of money books when I sold this site in 2009, I’d have even more books — and no…
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Talking about death, and the end-of-life decisions that must be made once we pass away, isn’t comfortable for anyone. But it’s a conversation we should all have with our families at some point. A traditional burial, in which a preserved…
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When I was a child, my mother and I rode a bus to and from the downtown Wichita Falls, Texas library every Wednesday and Saturday morning. I can still see it now: a brick, three-story building with floor-to-ceiling windows and the…
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“There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers, and more averse to one another, than if they were actually two different…
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Does your child get bored easily at school? Are they an outlier with a rebellious spirit that sometimes rubs their teachers or coaches the wrong way? Or do they simply enjoy creating things and have an interest in selling them to make…
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Does your child get bored easily at school? Are they an outlier with a rebellious spirit that sometimes rubs their teachers or coaches the wrong way? Or do they simply enjoy creating things and have an interest in selling them to make…
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I’ve been blogging since before “blog” was even a word. (Twenty-one years last Thursday!) I’ve had a financial blog for a dozen years now. In that time, things have changed in a variety of ways. For instance: Blogging has become more…
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Yesterday, I mentioned that because I grew up poor, I inherited a faulty money blueprint from my parents. They didn’t know how to handle money effectively, so they couldn’t teach me how to handle it effectively. I entered adulthood with…
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I am both a money nerd and a book nerd. Naturally, I get a little giddy when I find old books about money I’ve never heard of before. While browsing Oregon’s best used bookstore earlier this year, I stumbled on a 1989 book called How to…
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I’ll admit it: There are times that I think everything that needs to be said about personal finance has been said already, that all of the information is out there just waiting for people to find it. The problem is solved. Perhaps this is…
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