Month: March 2025

This post was written two years ago. I am not sure why it never got posted. The transition of money in and out of my life has become a daily topic of discussion in my life and in my home. In my unintended sabbatical, I paid off all of my debt except the mortgage, created a six month emergency fund, bought a car without financing, and have set up my R-IRA to be maxed out without me thinking about it. I thought that once I conquered the mountain that was student loan debt, the stress would be gone. It’s not. Despite having achieved so much financially, I seriously feel that I should be doing more. My son has more money than some adults I know and I am losing sleep trying to think of ways to create another income stream. What I want is financial freedom. The ability to choose Read more…

I wrote the following post sometime last year. Nothing has changed here it. I will be going through all of the drafts from when I abandoned this blog and posting them. Here is the first one. Did you get what you wanted? Noticing the beauty in random places is a skill that I thought I had figured out. I don’t. I am at odds; I have a great life that anyone would be envious of, but I find it lacking. This isn’t the life I envisioned for myself. In all honesty, I thought I would have ended up a single writer or climbing some form of a corporate ladder. Living in a city of course. Married living in suburbia with a kid was not on my bingo card. Neither was owning my own business. I have no way of knowing if what I thought should have happened would be a Read more…