This morning I woke up to a nice surprise: we got stimulus money, direct-deposited to our checking account. The sweetness of this was multiplied by the fact that yesterday we finished our…
Category: Money & Investing
We Finished Our Fricking Taxes!
Okay, so today we got our taxes in! Instead of feeling triumphant and awesome, I feel shy and kind of guilty about sharing it. I think I’m worried people will think I’m…
The Only Thing We Have to Fear…
In his excellent book “Your Money and Your Brain,” Jason Zweig writes with extensively-researched detail about the ways that strong human emotions (such as fear, greed, regret, and surprise) can distort our…
Personal Wins Still Matter!
It’s a bit bitter sweet to write about paying off my student loan, given the state of the world. Perhaps it is a bit of shyness, or perhaps it is a bit…
“The Four Pillars of Investing”: An Uncannily Well-Timed Read
Early in the year–way back in the pre-pandemic days of January and early February–I read William Bernstein’s “The Four Pillars of Investing.” This book was a lively, well-written, and enjoyable read. I…
Investing through Volatile Times: “So far so good”
Last year I did several investing-related blog posts called “What’s Your Risk Tolerance?” where I examined how I really felt about our investments. In particular, how I felt about the amount of…
The Simple Contrarian Beauty of Rebalancing
Hello! Today is the 15th of January, and it is my first post of 2020. I didn’t exactly plan not to blog until now, but to be honest, I didn’t have the…
The Fabulous Investing Decade of the 2010s (What’s Next?)
I started investing square in the middle of the decade, in April of 2015. We were already about six years into a fabulous bull market for stocks, and many people doubted it…
Ducks and Cats Would Understand
If you have ever had a cat, you will realize that they are basically constantly cleaning themselves. This never-ending grooming process can range from seeming amusing to seeming downright obsessive. They just…
The 2010s: (My) Decade in Review
Well, here we are, a few days away from the end of the 2010s! Soon, it will be but a memory, like all decades before it. This decade was quite significant for…