Apparently my new cadence is to update these "monthly" financial reports every two months, and right before the next month ticks over. As Regina and I keep asking each other - where has the time gone?! We are definitely in a time vortex these days. Somehow we're almost in October? I don't get it. Time…
The 12th Annual Plutus Awards was held Thursday night in Austin, Texas at FinCon. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Plutus Awards, they're the Oscars/Grammys/etc of the Personal Finance Community. I was really honored to be nominated for four awards this year: Current Events Content, Community Builder, Blog of the Year, and…
Happy Wednesday, all! A quick reminder that these Wednesday roundups are still happening every week, but they've migrated, naturally, over to WomensPersonalFinance.org. Still the same curated roundup you know and love, selected each week by me. Just funneled to the site where WPF has blossomed into its own 🙂 This week's roundup: Don’t Wait for…
I’m tired this week. And by that I mean mentally exhausted, not physically. It’s been a long year and a half and some days the continued chronic crisis just wears extra. I haven’t been able to run yet because of my ankle, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s connected. But hey, California doesn’t have…
So school is back in session around here, and a week and a half in, almost all the schools have had some level of Covid exposure, including the elementary school the kiddo would attend. While completely unsurprising, I find my stomach sinking every time I hear of another group of kids that have to be…
Texas. If you haven’t heard what’s going on there yet, please look it up. I’ve seen entirely too little talked about in the mainstream media, which is also horrifying and terrifying. Florida, Iowa, and other states are already looking to write replica bills. The Supreme Court declined to do anything. Honestly, I don’t see how…
This month feels like March 2020 but worse. When last spring things were looking dire, we still had this feeling that we were "all in this together." No matter where you were in the world, life was locked down and everyone was feeling the anxiety and fear over the spreading pandemic. Fast forward a year…
I would really like to be wrong about Covid and find that I’ve been overreacting at some point. Unfortunately, that has not happened yet. There was a point where I wondered if I should stop tracking these weeks as “Covid weeks,” but I knew we weren’t out of it yet, just a reprieve, earlier this…
I’ve talked from time to time about the ways we’re teaching our kiddo about money. Growing up, I was very, very lucky to have parents who made sure we had a general grasp on financial literacy, and it’s definitely done me well. Even though our kiddo is only six, he has a decent grasp on…
If you follow me on social media (or get our Women's Personal Finance newsletter), you'll already know, but we got to go visit Regina and her family down on the Oregon Coast! We've known each other for four years and have been close for the past three or so, but this was only our third…