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I’ve had this letter planned since the first quarter of 2025, but now that it’s time to write it, I have no idea how to do so without going blind from gazing too intently at my own navel. (Nevertheless, she persisted.) At the start of this year, I color-coded a blank editorial calendar. Every empty […]
I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment. My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]
I spent a few days last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to deliver a keynote called “Your Money, Our System: Collective Tools to Move the Needle” at an annual women’s conference. When I agreed to the presentation, I hadn’t realized that Teton County held the title of ‘greatest income disparity in the United States,’ a […]
Love Is Blind season 9 contestant “Sparkle” Megan Walerius says men are intimidated by her. In her own words: “I’ve done very well for myself professionally. I think it takes a very confident and secure man to be with a woman like me. It’s going to be interesting to navigate, are they just after me […]
I spent a few days last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to deliver a keynote called “Your Money, Our System: Collective Tools to Move the Needle” at an annual women’s conference. When I agreed to the presentation, I hadn’t realized that Teton County held the title of ‘greatest income disparity in the United States,’ a […]
As the S&P 500 continues to creep perilously higher with each passing week of 2025, I’ve been reading a lot about AI and thinking equally as much about the late Joan Didion, one of the most famous women in the grand tradition of putting words on paper. This may seem a strange, spontaneous association, but […]
I spent the weekend in a cabin just south of Breckenridge that appeared to be constructed with Lincoln Logs. It was a gumdrop surrounded by towering fir trees, the lighting soft and warm. Aspens tore peels of shimmering gold into the mountainside. Exploring the cabin’s cozy insides, I felt like one of the claymation figures […]
In June, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released a report that confirmed the obvious but unbearable reality that most aspiring homeowners recognized long ago: The median income cannot afford the median life. To meet traditional lending criteria for the middle-of-the-road home today, a prospective buyer would need to reliably pull down at least […]
I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment. My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]
I spent the weekend in a cabin just south of Breckenridge that appeared to be constructed with Lincoln Logs. It was a gumdrop surrounded by towering fir trees, the lighting soft and warm. Aspens tore peels of shimmering gold into the mountainside. Exploring the cabin’s cozy insides, I felt like one of the claymation figures […]
This essay contains copious White Lotus season 3 spoilers. If you’re not caught up, please stop whatever else you’re doing and go spend the next eight hours in front of your TV, which is the only screen we’re celebrating today. Timothy Ratliff is screwed. While on vacation at a fictional resort in Thailand called the […]
House-hunting in any US city will cause one simple question to bulldoze all the others: How can so many people afford to buy these houses? If you typically feel pretty good about your financial progress and you’d like to not feel good about it, there’s no activity I recommend more. Last weekend, my husband and […]
I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment. My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]
This essay contains copious White Lotus season 3 spoilers. If you’re not caught up, please stop whatever else you’re doing and go spend the next eight hours in front of your TV, which is the only screen we’re celebrating today. Timothy Ratliff is screwed. While on vacation at a fictional resort in Thailand called the […]
The “Passion Planner” was first sucked into the gravitational force field of my striving at an internship in 2016, thanks to a young colleague who reeked of competence. She represented the sort of high-achieving twenty-something I was desperate to become, and she was always toting around her leatherbound daybook. In morning meetings, I’d ogle as […]
I typically follow a simple social media strategy: Get incensed or enthused about a topic, then make a quippy, shareable, and, crucially, under-90-second breakdown. The simpler and timelier, the better. So when I shared a meandering, four-minute-long diatribe titled “healthcare hellscape vlog” in which I took the viewer on a spliced-together journey of my (failed) […]
Love Is Blind season 9 contestant “Sparkle” Megan Walerius says men are intimidated by her. In her own words: “I’ve done very well for myself professionally. I think it takes a very confident and secure man to be with a woman like me. It’s going to be interesting to navigate, are they just after me […]
International Women’s Day nearly escaped my awareness this year. As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one not in the spirit: About a week earlier, the “for women, by women” investing platform Ellevest announced it would be selling and transferring its roboadvisory accounts to Betterment this April. Ellevest explained in the fine print that […]
The other day, a friend asked me what I thought of the “money manifestation” courses she keeps seeing online. Maybe you’ve seen their ads, too: Relatable-feeling, straight-to-camera videos featuring people who promise to rid you of your “money blocks,” using scientific-sounding language and vague assurances about forthcoming abundance. This type of material usually triggers my […]
Almost 10 years ago, I lived in a city surrounded by hordes of other early 20-somethings. We were Venn diagrams of friend groups connected by mutual acquaintances or college roommates, hailing from all over the country and bringing unique backgrounds that were mostly unknown to one another. When you’re growing up, you usually know why […]
I’ve had this letter planned since the first quarter of 2025, but now that it’s time to write it, I have no idea how to do so without going blind from gazing too intently at my own navel. (Nevertheless, she persisted.) At the start of this year, I color-coded a blank editorial calendar. Every empty […]
I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment. My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]
Love Is Blind season 9 contestant “Sparkle” Megan Walerius says men are intimidated by her. In her own words: “I’ve done very well for myself professionally. I think it takes a very confident and secure man to be with a woman like me. It’s going to be interesting to navigate, are they just after me […]
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Rich Boy, 1926 “You know how people who come into money suddenly look better?” I texted my friend the other day as I breached the threshold of the grocery store’s automatic doors. “How does that […]