Category: On Money

At the beginning of a new year (and a new decade) I’m ready to plunge right in and make waves.  Presented with the clean slate of a new year, I’m ready to march forward with plans to do things differently.  I want to make changes with my money, my food, my family, my home, my work – you name it – it’s doomed for an extreme makeover!…

I think this year I’ll commit to a New Year’s Solution instead of a New Year’s Resolution.  Resolutions don’t seem to work for me.  Somehow resolving to make a change isn’t enough.  But, acting like I already have the answer feels like a better chance for success.…

Lately I’ve been talking to my clients about how to consciously spend by putting a gap ino our process.  A gap between the thought and act gives us time to make a conscious choice rather than one based on unconscious money beliefs.…

Keep watching, when you least expect it, Santa will appear!  Back on October 20, I expressed my frustration with Chase Credit for using a bogus excuse for upping my interest rate.  I wrote a letter in protest hoping to find some reason somewhere and that my rose-colored glasses weren’t beginning to blind me.…

Having flown home a day early to escape a Wisconsin blizzard, I faced a Maine snowstorm instead.  It got me thinking about snow days.  Remember when we were children and we prayed for snow days so we could stay home and do nothing? …

It just struck me as I prepare to fly to visit my mother in Wisconsin, that six months ago I posted my first blog from her home while I was spending six days caring for her.  Six months sure goes fast.  …

It’s 5:35 on Tuesday evening and I’m trying to clear up my desk to leave for my Downeast Thanksgiving Holiday.  One of my last tasks is to talk with the IRS.  Fortunately, I have time to write this blog because after 49 minutes I’m still waiting to connect with them!…

Last week I had a client ask, ”what do you think caused the recession?”  What a lead in for letting me get on my soapbox—it’s the exact reason I’m writing this blog! I’ve been a CPA long enough to remember other recessions and our reactions to them. …

A lot of you know my passion for taking The Problem with Money’s message out to the world.  I want everyone to know It’s Not About the Money.  Just like most of the problems in our lives (money, weight, health, etc.),…

While talking with my daughter-in-law about 5-year plans, the topic of my house in Freeport came up.  Wayne and I have only been there for 4 years but the house really feels like home—my home.  I lived in the same house in South Portland for 20+ years and raised my 3 sons there but it never felt like home to me. …