Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Good Reads, Money and Relationships on Sep 19th, 2008
I have a guest post running over at Make Love Not Debt, a great blog about personal finance and its effects on relationships. The site is a great niche for newlyweds like myself and for those about to take the leap. It’s run by a couple whose actually getting married and going on their honeymoon [...]
Posted in Good Reads, Outside the box on Sep 5th, 2008
Do I really know the answer to this question? Not a chance, but I know someone who has a much better idea. This blog is not about politics and I’m not about to turn it in that direction, but in the spirit of the Republican National Convention and John McCain’s acceptance last night, I wanted [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Aug 27th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Jul 22nd, 2008
Maybe you haven’t read it yet, but Freakonomics is a great book. The sequel, SuperFreakonomics, should be out in the near future — so you better hurry up and read the first one. Never has Economics been so interesting. Anyway, if you don’t want to go and buy (or check out) the book based only [...]
Posted in Good Reads, Investing on Jun 21st, 2008
I read this nifty little article over on Marketwatch about how the current ailing market means this is a fantastic time to learn to invest. I’ve been thinking of launching a series on learning how to invest from a writer’s point of view, but the magnitude of the whole thing has overwhelmed me. But this [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Jun 15th, 2008
Rarely do I recommend a specific article or blog post that I find out there, but it seems anytime Michael Lewis writes a new one, I’m doing that very thing. He’s just that good. This one is one near and dear to my heart—it’s about baseball in Cuba. Lewis actually goes out there and watches [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Jun 6th, 2008
Here are some of the more interesting things I’ve been reading recently:
I’ve always wondered what the deal was with buying dividend stocks and when you “qualified” for the dividend based. Can you buy it the day before the dividend is distributed and then sell it afterwards? Not quite, but this post by Stockerblog explains it [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Apr 28th, 2008
I hate doing entire posts dedicated to simply putting up links to other stuff on the web, but recently I’ve found a bunch of really good stuff to read and I wanted to share them with you, so here you go:
This guy Hates Bloggers: It’s all in jest, of course, but he brings up some [...]
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