2022

Audio: Stumbling Over Family History Doing the research to confirm the birth order and given names of Olga’s four daughters, I stumbled across a fact I didn’t know: My cousin Tiege is dead. It shouldn’t have been a surprise. The […]

Audio: Making Up For Lost Time With Money I’m guessing the four daughters were all happy to receive an inheritance of what I’ve estimated to be $800,000. One of them viewed it as a godsend. This daughter was 65 years

Audio: Four Sisters and Their Mother’s Money My great-grandfather’s wife, Emilie, gave her husband Emil Folda two children before she died of pneumonia at age twenty-eight. At the time of her death, her son Albin was nine and her daughter

Audio: The Other Side of Envy There is a woman in my condo building that has brought out my green-eyed monster. I’m not jealous of her. I envy her condo. The condo building has two towers, and she lives at

Audio: Traversing Unexpected Ice This morning I walked downtown to notarize a power of attorney form, one more step in the ongoing transfer of responsibility from Mom to me. Most of the snow from last week’s storm has been plowed,

Audio: A Dream Informs a Decision Last week’s post made it sound like I thought logical thoughts and came to the logical conclusion that I should delegate managing my investments. That’s not entirely true. A dream informed my decision. Dreams

Audio: This Might Be Working This coming out of the closet about money might be helping me. Here’s why I think so. I have two core fears that motivate much of my behavior around money (and maybe other things, too).

Audio: Redux on Two I want to revisit two prior posts, last week’s Uncle Emil, and from back in December, The Sins of the Parents. First, Uncle Emil. One of the financial lessons I took from Uncle Emil was wrong. I thought

Audio: Who Is This Woman? In this case, I’m not referring to some aged name on the family tree. I’m referring to the one who birthed me. Laurie, my psychologist friend, had prepared me to go back to New Jersey,