Have you ever heard the saying “The only constant in life is change?” I have often thought about, and more often fought with, that notion. I don’t know how you are, but…
Day 3: Sitting with the awkwardness
So today is Day 3 of my 365 days towards blogging nirvana. 🙂 I may jest, but truthfully, I am very excited by the opportunity for me to free myself from the…
Day 2: How Much Do People Read?
So yesterday, on a whim, I looked up “how much do people read” because, to be perfectly honest, I wanted to see how I stack up. For the past 3 1/2 +…
365 Days of Blogging Project: Day 1
So I have decided to create a 365 day blogging project. This is probably inspired by the movie “Julie and Julia,” which my wife and I watched for the first time in…
McDonald’s Behind the Arches
Several months back I wandered by the neighborhood used book store. Curious to look at the paperbacks they had on sale out on the street, for 50 centers or a dollar, I…
Vindicating the Profit Motive
What’s the most infamous word in the English language?? I’m not talking about an expletive. We all know this word, and it does not objectively represent a bad thing. In fact, it…
Overcoming Financial Perfectionism
I have never heard this topic discussed, yet I am sure that it comes up quite a lot. I want to talk about perfectionism. Specifically, Financial Perfectionism. Personally, I have struggled with…
Yosemite: the Sequel!
Thirty years ago, I went backpacking in Yosemite. I was seven years old. Each year at my school in Pleasant Hill, California, we went on a week-long camping trip. That year we…
It’s Time to Develop Good Financial Habits
Today I’d like to talk about a very important concept that if fully leveraged can change your life and help you get anything you want 😁 : Let’s talk about habits. More…
You can fail at doing something that is NOT your dream, too, ya know…
I thought I had it all figured out. I was going to develop my “day job” (in full disclosure: my piano teaching studio) to create a nice base that would help me…