This morning, I read an article about women and money. I won’t link it here, but the basic point was “Women usually let the men in their lives take care of the finances, and there are things they should know.” I have to admit, I felt the whole concept was condescending, but at the same …
Back from training. I always go into training classes a bit wary. I’ve done really great classes and really awful classes, and thanks to those awful ones, I tend to dread going. Thankfully, this class was great! I really wanted to get some blog entries written over the week, but there just wasn’t time with …
Anyone dreading April 15? Not me! I have a dinner date with an old friend that night. But maybe more importantly, I finished my taxes weeks ago. I am in training this week, hence the lack of blog posts. But I did have an interesting financial conversation yesterday. A guy in my group is foreign …
March was a pretty stellar month. My net worth increased 2.61%. My investments grew, I put more money into savings, started my new car fund with the money from my the fender bender, and I started contributing to my Roth IRA for this year. All in all, I’m pretty pleased. Of course, it’s April 2, …
Yesterday, I had the formal graduation ceremony for my fellowship program. Technically, I’ve been done with the program since October, but the deadline for the entire fellowship class to complete was this past week (I think), so we had our ceremony yesterday, in order to get the most attendees possible. It was really interesting to …