Happy October! Wait… what. How is that even possible. Time is such a weird thing these days. The fact that it’s now October… I don’t know where September went. Pfizer has passed along their studies for the 5-11 age group, so now it’s in the hands of the FDA to approve their vaccine for use.…
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…
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…
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…
So we’ve decided that the kiddo will continue to be homeschooled this fall. Between the Delta variant and the fact that he can’t be vaccinated yet, keeping him home a bit longer seems like the right thing to do. After months of waffling, I’m definitely feeling the relief of simply making a decision about this…
So the question is, when is it time to really hunker down again? I asked a friend this yesterday, and they responded with “Again? I didn’t realize we ever stopped.” So then I realized I needed to explain myself a bit more. Since all of us adults have gotten vaccinated in our regular circle, we’ve…
I know I keep saying it, but this year keeps on rushing by. March 2020 by itself felt longer than the entire first half of 2021, I think. Really, Covid has just warped time to where it doesn’t seem to go at the same pace it used to. And don’t ask me to tell you…
With wildfire burning throughout the western United States and Canada, I’m just holding my breath until smoke season descends on us once again. With such hot, dry conditions as we’ve had, the wildfires have started in earnest faster and stronger, and they’re worse this month than they were August of last year. I’m feeling like…