In your journey, people feel empowered, like they have walked out of a dark room into the daylight. There is an empowerment to having savings. My early experiences included learning how to grow food, raise animals and butcher them for my winter’s meat, build, work …
Life Design with the World in Mind It contains all my work to date on food, money, conversation, community building, sustainability. Life. This is the life part of Your Money or Your Life. The money part is actually just preparation for (or in support of) …
COULD WE BE HAPPY? Vicki Robin – October 17, 1999 And we will all be noisy We will gather in the streets talking about recipes and politics and philosophy and love We will show each other our bruises with the innocence of children. Convinced …
I don’t see financial independence as the ultimate goal. I see it as just a ticket to the greatest show on earth – the earth itself with all her beauty, complexity, critters and currently crises. The opportunity to ask the Mary Oliver questions: What are …
What do you wish you’d known about money by the time you were 12? Or 18? Or 22? Or 30? Shouldn’t money and finance and quality of life be part of the K-16 curriculum? Given that young people stumble into un-payable student loans by the …
Thinking what policies FIRE grads might reasonably champion I’m exploring a set of 4 policies that could both benefit people as they climb the FI mountain, and set the stage for #FIforAll – a world where we all have a a personal and economic safety net …
Justine and Michael (previously Green Renaissance) – on a journey to explore our shared humanity – captured beautifully my new exploration on “coming of aging”
I live in a village on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Due to economics, we’ve become a NORC, a naturally occurring retirement community. So many creative, talented people moved here when we could afford to buy, and here we are, growing old together but …
2023 was a doozie of a year. One of the hardest in the last decade or so, and one of the most transformative. I went in 77 going on 60. I came out 78 going on old. I drew a total blank around “old” as …
I’m in the final swing of my 78th turn around the sun. I’ve often wondered what happened to those famous people who disappear from view, only to appear again in an obituary decades later. What were they doing all those years? How did they …
