Advertising…and the lack thereof
You may have noticed that, in the tweaking of my site, all of the paid postings are gone. I applied to become a BlogHer advertiser and cannot do this while doing paid postings. I hadn’t done one in some months, so I suppose it is no great loss.
I loved the paid postings. [...]
I couldn’t have said it better…
I like to read a blog called Get Rich Slowly. It’s part of a set of personal finance blogs (PF blogs) that I have feeds for and read every day in my quest to save money and become more responsible. This particular article is a guest post by someone named Amanda, who is [...]
Greenspan — on my side
One of the things Marti and I have started doing the past few years is learning about finances. This all started back in D.C., when we were introduced to the concept of investing money (we were also introduced to the concept of having money period, but that’s another story). We saved and saved, [...]
When Money Means Too Much
It saddened me greatly to read this article in the New York Times about the head of a Chinese Toy Company, who purportedly committed suicide after it was discovered that his company had used leaded paint for toys sold through Mattel in the U.S.
Two things stand out to me. First, that the company that [...]
At a loss
Can I tell you? I am still in the nightmare of packing and sorting. Thank you to all who have offered to help (we will be taking you up on it!) but some things I and only I can do, and that includes sorting and deciding what to keep. After yesterday, however, [...]
Kiva
Although I featured this site on my financial blog, it’s cool enough I want to talk about Kiva here, too. Kiva is an organization that handles microloans for 3rd world countries. Basically you choose an individual in a poor country to lend money to — a microloan — and then you get paid [...]
Kindergarten Hell
Ben goes to kindergarten next year, and we are currently in kindergarten hell. Extreme, you say? Well, it goes like this.
Last summer, I begin calling schools. “Oh, ma’am, you are wayyyy too early to look at schools! Wait until spring. Our kinder round-ups are in the spring.”
So February goes by [...]
Steve and Sheleen’s US Adventure
*Note: Thanks to everyone who contributed to Steve and Sheleen and their quest to come to the U.S. Sheleen was awarded the very prestigious Ford scholarship, which is paying for her schooling, and is doing well as a university freshman on the nursing track. Steve is now employed at Medical Teams International and [...]
No More Politics, No More Finance
For a long time Marti and I have talked about me starting up another blog, an anonymous one so I can stop pissing off my various family members by talking about politics. It is also a bit dodgy to talk about finances on a known blog, for obvious reasons, so a few weeks ago [...]