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...

I’ve been pricing the cost of improvements to the land in Kentucky. As part of that, I needed to understand the tax implications of anything I might do, so I called the assessor’s office. The clerk...

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...

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...

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,...