Happy Lunar New Year! Also … mulligan! For sure, the best part of celebrating not one, but two New Year’s Days each, er … year, is getting the chance to take another look at your resolutions, your many, many resolutions, Continue Reading
You have to feel a little bad for Sears. Once the dominant retailer in America—its mail-order catalogs sold just about everything up to and including houses—the company, after a rough number of years, finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Continue Reading
January went out with a bang for sure with all my kids home from school for seven straight days thanks to Mother Nature. Actual image of me tonight: So glad I got my hair cut when I was in NYC Continue Reading
It’s so cold here, the US Postal Service suspended delivery. Even more astounding, the bars are closing. People! I live in Wisconsin. Even the BARS are closing. We’re all gonna die! I mean, we’re all gonna die regardless, but these Continue Reading
Sometimes, I miss having a full-time, 9-to-5, “normal” office job. All that lovely routine … adults-only spaces … free coffee and snacks … a regular paycheck. I particularly miss said job when people ask me what I do for a Continue Reading
What is the value of a dollar? And I don’t mean 100 pennies or 20 nickels or four quarters … though a dollar is all of those things. I mean, what is a dollar worth? Maybe you’re like supermodel Linda Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, a question came up at the dinner table. My son asked, Are we rich? Immediately, I said, Yes, we are. Almost simultaneously, his dad and grandma replied, Oh, no. Hmm. We eventually ascertained that I was Continue Reading
Today, my daughter went ice skating for the first time this winter and, as such, we had to dig out the bag with all the gear … including her now-two-sizes-too-small skates. Given how much they cost and how many times Continue Reading
As many of you know, in addition to teaching financial literacy and money management classes, I also teach test prep for post-secondary education admission exams (i.e. for college and graduate school). While these two subjects may not, at first glance, Continue Reading
Remember when I laid out that scenario in which your fridge craps out? Look what I got to do today! I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with it, but since I am the spouse with the more, ahh, flexible schedule Continue Reading
