Finance

Going Back – No More Fishing

Stop me if you’ve heard this one! A guy is speeding down the highway when he’s pulled over by a police officer. As the officer approaches the car, the guy rolls down his window and asks the officer “Officer, I was not going any faster than any of the other dozens of cars that I [...]

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Finance Lessons from Gardening

So, I’ve embarked on another attempt at Square Foot Gardening. Last July, I shared a post about the challenges of square foot gardening. All in all, last year’s garden wasn’t much of a success. Of course, the challenges I had were more symptoms than the real problem. So, where did my gardening go wrong? Too [...]

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Turn Off the News and Fix Your Attitude

It’s not that hard.  Reach out and turn off the television or the radio, and close your news websites.  I’ve gone into my Feed Reader for the last week and just hit “Mark All as Read” after reading the subject lines of the blog entries.  I’m SO tired of hearing about the “crisis” and the [...]

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A Peek At My Feed Reader

I’m at home sick today. BOO HISS! So, while I’m tucked into bed and attempting to recover, I’m going to share the first 20 links in my feed reader as of this very moment. Now ya’all get to see what I REALLY read. Here’s a simple way to get 50,000 people to your blog in [...]

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Revisit – The Victim Mentality

I read an article today at MSN Money that reminded me of an article I wrote last year.  After re-reading it, I felt it was worth a revisit… especially in light of all of the Bail Out talks that have taken the world over. I tried to read Suze Orman’s book The 9 Steps to [...]

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