On a recent walk, Mr. Groovy and I listened to a podcast of Farnoosh “I-Make-More-Than-My-Husband” Torabi interviewing Bobbi Rebell. Bobbi is making the rounds discussing a book she wrote called How to Be A Financial Grownup. Although I haven’t read the book, the title hit home and made me think about what it means to …
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Back in September Mr. Groovy took his last business trip. While he was gone for two nights, I took our usual daily two-mile walk around our neighborhood without him. I listened to Gretchen Rubin’s Happier podcast instead of the finance shows Mr. Groovy and I normally walk to. On one of those days, Gretchen and her …
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Last week I was glad Mr. Groovy took up the cause to write a Thanksgiving post. I wasn’t in a gratitude state-of-mind. Maybe I was still lolling in loserdom from my latest post about TEDx Talks. To make myself feel better, I put out a call to our follow bloggers for links to their Thanksgiving posts …
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It’s high time that I let out a rant here. Why does Mr. Groovy get to have all the fun? If he can use our website as his ranting platform, so can I. He says Robert Kiyosaki and Tony Robbins bug him? I’ll tell you who bug me—TEDx Talk presenters! There, I said it. Do …
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Is your idea of vacation eating crawfish meat pies at the Chevron station? Well, that’s what we were doing a few days into our “Gumbo Trail Retirement Kickoff Road Trip,” as Mr. Groovy dubbed it. It’s a mouthful (pun intended), but ever since Mr. Groovy read about the Gumbo Trail a few years ago in …
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