Month: December 2022

For entirely justifiable reasons, no one has ever called me the brightest light in the toolbox. Or the sharpest tool in the cookie jar. Or the smartest cookie in the shed. Yet here I sit stand, in an incredibly a fortunate situation.  Ain’t it just my luck? As I recently quipped about myself to someone,…

A while back I wrote about the motivating power of fear. I’ve written some other posts on the subject, too (see here and here . . . and ad nauseum occasionally in my Money, Man! series of posts..  I never wanted to be motivated by fear. Even after realizing its somewhat perverse “benefits.”  But the…

I wrote on this blog earlier this year that I had the opportunity to talk personal finance and FIRE with a college student who seems receptive to the knowledge. Because if I know anything, it’s that college students live to talk personal finance. It’s been fun.  I now have a second student (let’s call him…