Feeding Your Emergency Fund

Last week, just shy of 400,000 Americans filed a jobless claim for the first time. Next week, my former supervisor will be one of them. To call Kate just “a former supervisor” is a gross – and egregious – understatement. Kate was an office innovator, an office...

Creating a Paper Trail: Saving Receipts

A few days ago, I gave my daughter a privilege she’s never had before: I let her go downstairs and play by herself while I stayed upstairs and slept in a little longer. (OK, I admit, it was  privilege for me too.) When I finally walked downstairs at the...