The Writer’s Coin

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I don’t do this very often, but today I looked in my “idea inbox” and noticed I had a lot of links to articles I wanted to highlight. So I’m going to list them all and give you an idea of why I enjoyed them so much:

Back to School: The Case for Majoring in English [...]

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Honestly? I always thought poetry was a frail and boring thing, even a little feminine. You say things within certain rhythmic parameters and cut off your sentences at illogical places and you have yourself a poem. Bid deal. And this is from someone who loves to read/write fiction. Poetry was always something I would shrug [...]

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I love to read. So naturally, I have tons of books and am constantly buying new ones. I’ve been good about staying frugal in my book buying recently — the last book I bought was a while ago and I paid $0.50 for it at a sidewalk sale. And I’ve also been using the library [...]

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Early on in the life of this blog, I got lucky. A post I wrote about 401(k) accounts, somehow got linked to at the bottom of a Wall Street Journal post and I saw a spike in traffic. It was exciting and encouraging because it gave me a chance to see what can happen if [...]

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One of the very first personal-finance pieces I ever wrote was about Bank of America’s Keep the Change program (it was years ago and it wasn’t for this blog, I was trying to get it published in a magazine. It never happened). At the time, I thought it was a great idea and gave customers [...]

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Right now I’m reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while now but only started after buying it for 50 cents at a sidewalk sale a month or so ago. If you’ve never read it, it’s about how the author decides to hike the Appalachia [...]

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OK well I totally forgot about this earlier in the month, so here is what the blog did financially last month. As you’ll notice, the biggest change is that the freelance income is gone. The job was becoming a time suck for me and was paying me very little per hour, so after some wrangling [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I went to a BBQ dinner with some friends of M’s friend. Basically, I didn’t know anyone except M and her friend. Which is a good way to meet new people and expand your horizon, but sometimes you just don’t feel like going through the hassle of meeting new people. [...]

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