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No sooner had I pressed “Complete Purchase” on four roundtrip tickets from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle did I begin involuntarily envisioning the trip through a 16:9 aspect ratio. Captions appeared swiftly, as naturally as intrusive thoughts. My brain produced puns of its own accord, a vestige of my […]
I couldn’t resist naming this essay “Local Woman Discovers Leisure in European City,” as I recently learned all the cliches about life in Paris (and my reactions to them, as a former girl from the Kentucky suburbs) are deserved. Yes, the food tastes better, and somehow even a straight pastry-and-cheese diet didn’t make me feel […]
Listen, Rich People, something you should know about me is that my brain is owned and operated by a trio of opposing, hustling forces (the Three Grind Mice, if you will), constantly grappling with one another for control. The first mouse is Curiosity, genuinely open-minded and steering me in the direction of truth, no matter […]
I used to be basically unaware of my financial standing. My Discover bills and rent were always paid on time, but I couldn’t tell you how much I was saving or what my net worth was. As such, my purchases were relatively low-drama affairs—desire, swipe, and move on, only to be reminded three weeks later […]
Disclaimer: I’m now referring to the blog posts in this Q4 chunk of publishing as my “personal finance angst” era, because when I wrote them in September, I was genuinely angered by the Fed’s decisions and how callous the goal of “unemployment” felt given the last 40 years of meager wage gains for the working […]