FIer Jane Dwinell blogs with her daughter, Dana Dwinell-Yardley. If you want to read about her FI way of life, complete with a slide show to make your mouth water, go here. If you want more of her practical wisdom from her blog, read on. …

Years ago a filmmaker asked if she could interview me about my own lifestyle – like what i eat for breakfast and are there any clothes I buy new. I can’t tell you how much I didn’t want to do that. The whole point of …

Speaking is 10% preparation and 90% listening to the audience – which is what I’ve been doing on tour. You’ve told me so much through your questions, and I’ll be blogging a lot this week to catch you all up. The meta question of course …

Tassew was my cab driver to the airport in Atlanta. I noticed he had Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents tucked beside his seat – which was quite an opener for conversation. Right away we were deep into the topic of

I’ll never forget a talk Joe and I gave to an audience of several hundred people. In the Q&A a young woman timidly asked, “But how do you track your expenses?” Joe looked at her in disbelief. “You take out your little book (he always …

The Seattle Times started the New Year calling you a financial dunderhead. Maybe not you. Maybe a few people you know. “Financial illiteracy has cost the nation trillions of dollars in hard-earned savings, investment and mortgage payments,” they said in an editorial titled Nation of …

Savings? You heard it here first. Well, you heard it from Your Money or Your Life – again and again. Stand still long enough and the world does come back to your door. Saving money – living within your means – is making a comeback. …

Someone pointed out the irony of the name Made-Off, as in he made off with your money. Joe Dominguez warned again and again about amateurs putting their money in the stock market, especially when a broker or your brother Harry says he has a “sure …

My community here on Whidbey Island blew a big gust of wind in my sails on Thursday. 75 people filled Thomas Berry Hall at the Whidbey Institute to hear my stories about Joe and the seminar and the book and my decade of work trying …

There, that got your attention! In fact I was interviewed in October for the January issue of O (and here’s the result). The O writer asked why the new edition and I thought my answer would be a fine first post on this new blog …