Steel Cables
Been thinking a lot about obligations lately. What you owe to colleagues, family, friends, society – why and how the calculations are made. Fortunately, when I get caught in a […]
Tag Archives: money
Un-Wealthy
There has been a lot of discussion lately about poverty in the US both because of the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s War on Poverty, and the proposed extension of federal […]
A Very Big Deal
We bought a couch the other day. My husband and I went to a furniture store and left after we had purchased a couch rather than before. It’s not as […]
School’s Out
School funding in my state is a giant, tangled unconstitutional mess in which our state legislature is currently wading. Their actions will reverberate for many years to come as they […]
Pie
I am just poking my head up after a 4-hour trip down the rabbit hole of Internet research. In the midst of writing a paper (that I don’t feel like […]
Inventory
Every year around this time I feel compelled to inventory and “use up” overstocked items in my house. I’m not sure how I end up with four different moisturizers with […]
The Pledge
Tis the season to think about money. With the fiscal cliff and the holiday shopping ads competing for attention, I keep asking myself “How much money is enough?” It seems […]
Abundance
As many people do we went around the table on Thanksgiving and everyone shared something they were thankful for. There was a general consensus about being thankful for family, friends […]
Queasy
I freaked my husband out this morning. I told him that my father refused to fill out the FAFSA for me when I wanted to attend college. In case you […]
Holier than Thou
Had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone I don’t know very well. This woman was coming to me for advice on a sticky situation and so spent some time defining […]
Personhood
I could have just as easily called this post “Doublespeak” or “Having your cake and eating it too”, but I am too irritated to be literary or historical right now. […]
5-minute fantasy
Every day I treat myself to a 5-minute fantasy. I get two emails a day to remind me to enter a drawing to win a kitchen makeover. Every day I […]
you say you want a revolution
People in the media (and in general conversation) keep yapping that they don’t know what the Occupy Wall Street folks want, ‘their demands are not clear’, ‘they have no agenda’, […]
The Magic Closet
I was about to title this post “A Visit from the Closet Fairy” but thought that might be misleading. The Closet Fairy you see is not someone who is LGBT […]
Keeping up with the Jones’s
I had to buy a new car. It was time. The old one was putting the mechanic’s kids through private school, sucking up money with a straw, and complicating our […]
