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Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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Let’s Meetup!

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I grew up stay­ing fair­ly close to home. We took a few trips to neigh­bor­ing states to vis­it a theme park or to see rel­a­tives for a week in the sum­mer. I did get to vis­it my Grand­ma in Flori­da twice, once around age 8 and once around age 13, so I was famil­iar with the con­cept of com­mer­cial air travel, […]

Chautauqua 2017: Lessons Learned

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As pre­vi­ous­ly dis­cussed in my Chau­tauqua recap post, I had a real­ly amaz­ing time hang­ing out with new and old friends, tak­ing in the beau­ti­ful scenery, and learn­ing some pret­ty inter­est­ing things. I cov­ered the friends and scenery in the last post, so.….… time to talk about the lessons I learned! Les­son 1 Our host Cheryl gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on […]

Chautauqua 2017: A Breath of Fresh Air

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I’ve recent­ly returned from the beau­ti­ful Ecuador where I spent a week in par­adise at the Chau­tauqua! For those of you who don’t know what a Chau­tauqua is, the orig­i­nal def­i­n­i­tion comes from the book Zen and the Art of Motor­cy­cle Main­te­nance: “…an old-time series of pop­u­lar talks intend­ed to edi­fy and enter­tain, improve the mind, and bring […]

Waiting, Waiting, and More Waiting

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It seems like my life thus far has been noth­ing but wait­ing. Wait­ing for… …my 5th birth­day so I could join my sis­ter in the big kid’s room at preschool. …age 10 so I could get an adult library card and check out more than YA books. …ele­men­tary school to end so I could go to the mid­dle school. …my […]

Rant and Rave: Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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Rant: I hate the cold. HATE IT. As a very petite lady, I seem to suf­fer from cold more than every­one else. Any time the weath­er dips below 50 degrees F out­side, I can be found hud­dled in a hood­ie under mul­ti­ple lay­ers of blan­kets. Last week­end, the weath­er got up into the 50’s. Peo­ple were out wash­ing their cars, running, […]

Lessons from the Chautauqua

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If I’ve learned one thing dur­ing my 25 years on this Earth, it’s that peo­ple are full of advice. Some of that advice is ter­ri­ble. Some isn’t real­ly applic­a­ble to your life. How­ev­er, oth­er tid­bits offered by peo­ple have the poten­tial to change your entire life. That was the case at the Chau­tauqua last week. There was […]