Hello! It’s been a few years. Three, in fact, since I’ve posted on this site. A lot has changed with my family. We’ve moved. We’ve switched our son’s school (twice, thanks to Covid). I returned to work (still part-time, of course!). And, perhaps the biggest change: my husband left the company he founded to work full-time for a global ministry and now he has to gets to raise his own salary support. I plan to write about all those stories and...
Downsize Your 2080 is one year old! Photo by Carol (that’s me!) The anniversary of my first post, Want to Downsize Your Work Year? Read These Non-monetary Considerations, was actually a few weeks ago but I was too busy to announce it. With less than two dozen posts on my site, I had traveled to Orlando to attend FinCon18, a conference where personal finance bloggers, authors, media types, and representatives from finance-related companies meet to get giddy over things like...
Garden of the Gods Park was a 2011 Great Place Designee. If you’ve ever visited, you know why this park is a highlight of its community. Photo by Carol. I’m dropping by with the 2018 list of the American Planning Association’s (APA’s) Great Places. I’ll be back next week with an article related to mixing careers and family. But, first, a fun post to encourage you to nominate your most favorite place in your community (United States only) for the...
Photo by Carol (that’s me!) from our recent dream trip to Kauai. Does a baby avocado grow up dreaming of being spread on toast and covered with an egg? or being mashed in to guacamole to be eaten with chips at the world’s finest five-star resort? Of course not! Why? Because avocadoes don’t have a heart and a brain and an imagination that allows it to dream, to set goals, and to connect in the way that only humans can....
Your dreams and goals may seem like a tough mountain to climb, but you’ll never know the feeling of fulfilling that dream if you never get started! Photo by Carol. Many in the personal finance blogging community are laser focused on achieving one goal: early retirement. They write of saving a high percentage of their high salaries, set the countdown clock, and let the world know when they’ve cut loose from the chains of the cubicles. That’s great! For them....
