We are now 16 days to Halloween. I may not always know what day it is at any given time, but since the kiddo is now updating me daily, I do know how many days are left until Halloween. After Halloween, I expect to have a similar update for Thanksgiving and Christmas (and then his…
The weather is definitely turning now that we're into October. The rain is so needed and welcome, but the sunshine is also extra welcome right now because we know it's precious and rare and soon enough we won't see it for a good stretch of time. Like the last few years, I've been intentionally getting…
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…
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…
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…