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When we first moved to California, our next-door neighbors—a very kind Gen X couple—knocked on our door and invited us over for dinner. In the following weeks, they’d pop over to check in, periodically lending a tool or an extra set of hands. One day while I was stuck in traffic coming back from San […]
Imagine for a moment that you have a magic browser plugin. When activated while viewing your portfolio, this mystical Chrome extension can scan your Wealth Planner and tell you which portion of your existing net worth you’ll never get to spend. Let’s say you learn that, of the money you’ve already squirreled away (and what […]
I rarely go physically grocery shopping anymore, opting instead for the convenience of delivery orders of roughly five days’ worth of meal-making materials at a time. But this past Saturday, I decided to take the entire day off (¡escándalo!)—so why not take the time to drive across town and peruse the produce in person? Before […]
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 […]
Imagine this: It’s Christmas Eve. You’ve worked hard all week, waiting until your PTO kicks in to fly back east for the holidays. You finally pack a suitcase, gifts in tow, and head to the airport, bracing for a week of fending off thinly veiled political antagonisms from an older relative. You figure you’ll grab […]
tl;dr “A completely unregulated system would only serve to exacerbate the problem (as the FTX meltdown has more or less exemplified with comic precision), and a socialist system would probably ensure there’s not much wealth to fight over (as the Bros are quick to point out by referencing Venezuela). Neither group’s solution addresses the heart […]
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 […]