Last night, Laura Trujillo, author of Stepping Back from the Ledge, spoke at the Mercantile Library for their annual memoir lecture. This reflection references suicide. If you or someone you know...

I’ve been working on a novel, dinking around with it for a couple of years, then seriously since 2019. It’s had three significant overhauls on the way to a completed first draft. The story is about...

I feel like I’m supposed to come to some big conclusion after all this investigation into money themes. But I don’t have one. Maybe the point was the process. Maybe it would be more worthwhile to...

There’s one last money secret to share before we wrap up the money theme. This secret is in the present. We know the US tax system is inequitable, unfair, unjust. We know that when Jeff Bezos and...

6 March 2022 I need to bring black and blue pens and my composition notebook. And something that feels comforting, not my weighted blanket because it is too big and too heavy. Maybe Lambie. (Don’t...

Some money lessons have come closer to home. The kitchen for the first and the living room for the second. When I was in high school, my mother, in the kitchen, initiated a negotiation with my...