So, I’ve been bitten by the house buying bug and my husband and I are starting the search for buying our very own piece of America. Naturally, I want to learn everything I can about the most expensive purchase I will ever make. Home buying is confusing and mortgages are complicated, and even more so […]
Years ago, my Uncle gave me the book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben for Christmas. My Uncle had heard him talk and thought that I would be interested in the book and economics and ecological ideas it contained. Grad school precludes reading anything for fun so I have […]
I was browsing the personal finance shelves at my local library and I ran across this book, The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources. Intrigued, I flipped through the pages and thought, “Yeah, this looks like something that applies to me, to all of us in fact.” So I checked it out […]
I just recently finished reading Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. This is a great personal finance book because the author discusses my favorite part of personal finance, the personal part. I truly believe that we learn best from each other by being vulnerable and sharing our mistakes as well as our […]
I recently read Hot Broke Messes: How To Have Your Lattee and Drink It Too by Nancy Trejos. I checked it out from the library (saving money already!) and read through it in about a week. This book is a funny memoir of a former Washington Post personal finance writer’s financial journey. This is the […]