The author of the No Limits Ladies blog recently ran a five-part series on my book Passion Saving: The Path to Plentiful Free Time and Soul-Satisfying Work. She says: “Unfortunately, most people will not pick up this book based on the title alone. The S word no one likes. The people who truly value the [...]

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I recently wrote a guest blog for the plonkee money blog entitled Saving 10 Percent Is Death.

Juicy Excerpt: It is a bad idea to consult a rule of thumb when deciding how much to save. Effective saving plans are customized saving plans, not prefab saving plans. What you need to determine is, what percentage of [...]

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The Wall Street Journal insulted us last Saturday.
It was not an intentional or direct insult. It was an implicit insult put forward by quoting with approval the words of two experts. Still, I believe that the Wall Street Journal insulted middle-class workers seeking financial freedom early in life in an article from the edition published [...]

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It is my usual practice to draw inspiration for the money-management advice I offer from early-period and mid-period Beatles songs. There are times, however, when it cannot be denied that there is a darker side to the personal finance story that also very much needs to be told.
It was that darker side that was on [...]

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What if we weren’t so private about our personal financial lives? That’s the provocative question asked in a recent entry to the It’s Just Money blog.
The author of the blog notes that, “after finishing school, we go from all being poor college students to varying levels of economic means.” We naturally develop an interest in [...]

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