Writing these posts - and inadvertently becoming a specific champion of women's voices in the personal finance space - has changed the way I've looked at things at work and in the rest of my life as well. I grew up in a home where being a women meant nothing different than being a man,…
I keep telling myself that I will get ahead on finishing posts when I have a guest post featured here, but it has yet to happen. To be fair, even a guest post does take more work to published than I would have ever guessed pre-blogging, but it still is less than writing a full…
The guest posts I've featured so far this year have so far all been sustainability and zero waste focused, which has been my intent since Budget Epicurean pitched me the idea for the first one. Today's post, on the other hand, is about a topic that often overlaps with those but is really its own…
Short work weeks when we don't have a vacation planned always feel a bit strange; the rest of the workplace also has the days off, so in theory, there shouldn't be extra work compressed into the days like when you're taking individual time off, but it never seems to work that way. Granted, it doesn't…
I'm back from Cents Positive but still riding the high of how amazing that weekend was. I had high hopes for the event, and they surpassed even that. I hadn't been to any sort of personal finance/financial independence conference before, but the bar has now been set high. If you're a women who is interested…
As I've mentioned a couple of times in the last few months, this past weekend I was in Denver as I attended the inaugural Cents Positive retreat, and the first time I was away from my son for more than one consecutive night since he was born almost four years ago, plus the first time…
Happy Halloween everyone! Since I have a 3.5 year old at home, we will be out trick or treating tonight. Of course, it's supposed to be rainy and not too warm, but that's pretty much a right of passage for trick or treating in the Pacific Northwest. Most of my early memories of Halloweens are…
The online personal finance community, and especially the financial independence subset, seems to be filled with people who make some seriously above average incomes. While I will begrudge no one for earning that high salary, it can be more than a bit discouraging when you realize the timelines many of them talk about could never…
The natural gas explosion I mentioned last week ended up being a much smaller deal than the headlines first made it sound, and everything is back to normal as far as garbage service and home natural gas usage. Whenever some acute situation requires changes to daily lives, be it a break in the natural gas…
I have to say that I am loving putting this series together. I may not have initially started this blog to champion the women in the personal finance / financial independence space, but it's become a very important part of my blogging journey, and this series is a natural extension of that. Representation matters, and…