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I’m Back! Now With Less Spam

Hello all! It has been a long time, right? Like…years even. It has been a great couple of years, but I stopped writing on my little blog here for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, working in Finance, my employer at the time wasn’t comfortable with me writing much about investing or financial things, so […]

Questioning a Conventional Retirement

When I was first out of college, I thought I had it all figured out. I’d go get myself a decent job, live well below my means, and retire as early as humanly possible. This preliminary plan suited me just fine right up until I actually got a job. Once the initial shock of “People […]

Fitocracy, and Making Fitness Fun

All too often, we find fitness coinciding right along side finance in terms of importance. Health is wealth, so they say, and examples of this are all around you. Not taking care of your body physically often results in expensive and sometimes catastrophic consequences down the line, and so you’ll often read about Personal Finance […]

Enjoying the Ocean: My Little Seaside Rant

hives treatment p style=”text-align: center;”> I’ll be honest, I’ve never been much of a beach person. The whole process of getting to the beach, fighting traffic and overpopulation along the shoreline, getting there, unpacking in the intense heat while the sand burns your feet, sitting in the sun with about a bazillion other people for […]

Cleaning out the Cobwebs

For those of you (apparently there are some!) who have visited in the past few months, you’ve probably noticed that I had all but vanished for the good part of a year. Unfortunately (or fortunately!) my new job required my reactive my Series 7 license. If you’re familiar, you probably know that any outside business […]