Family First Values | AKA: Why Giving To Homeless Feels Wrong

Yesterday, Sage took to Facebook and mentioned that the charity was now grabbing some of our personal savings to stay afloat. I am a very private person, so this felt like he’d hung our underwear on the outside laundry line. And no, he didn’t check in with me before that post went out. Ehem. I… Continue reading Family First Values | AKA: Why Giving To Homeless Feels Wrong

The Things We Save

My Mother in Law saved her her dog’s tags. I can look at the year and know which dog likely wore each shiny medallion. I am saving them as treasures. I am not saving her over-50-piece set of Liberty Falls tiny houses. Which begs the question: why do we save the things we do? Turn… Continue reading The Things We Save

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Means to an Ends

There’s irony afoot in my life. I’m having an issue with a person who cares more for the ends than the means in their work. To get my point across and force the issue to a head, I engaged in some less than ideal conduct. See what I did there? We justify this sort of… Continue reading Means to an Ends

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Pay Your Kids for Chores

It’s a common debate now-a-days. Do kids get cash for chores or are they unpaid family responsibilities? Ron Lieber, the New York Times’ “Your Money” columnist and author of the new book The Opposite Of Spoiled, says don’t pay your kids for chores.  One reason? “According to Lieber’s philosophy, kids should look at chores just like… Continue reading Pay Your Kids for Chores

Learning to Tolerate Anxiety

I have long tapped into what this Business article says is, “the benefit of anxiety.” I do as they recommend and “use it as motivation to get prepared and push yourself to perform well.”  To this I say, Yuck. We’d all be better off shunning this productivity validates your existence paradigm. I take meds for anxiety,… Continue reading Learning to Tolerate Anxiety

What Should I Be When I Grow Up?

Yeah, so my first world problems include this incredible fear of missing out of all my different potential selves and lives. Explained beautifully here at one of my all-time favorite blogs, Brain Pickings. “Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions… Continue reading What Should I Be When I Grow Up?