My family and my brother's family traveled to spend Father's Day weekend with my parents. Sitting around the kitchen table, my father was poking fun of the fact that there were several people on their smart phones checking Facebook, Twitter or … [Read more...] about Why I Will Never Take A “Technology Break”
I did something Sunday night for dinner that I haven't done for quite a while. My son tilted his head and looked at me like I was an alien speaking a different language when I told him what we were doing. I had our family eat together at the … [Read more...] about Is Family Meal Time A Thing Of The Past?
When our son was in elementary school, my wife and I would joke that he had an approved list of 10 things that he would eat. He didn't care for many of the food options at school, plus he complained about not having much time to eat once … [Read more...] about Six Ways to Rock The School Lunchbox
“You said you would pay for it,†said my son in an agitated tone of voice, “as a Christmas or birthday present.†The above quote was from a conversation over the weekend regarding his Xbox Live subscription which he uses to play video … [Read more...] about My Son Didn’t Want To Pay His Bills
Up next in the Personal Finance Basics Series is a task that I personally should go through myself: Career Planning. I have discovered what I'm good at doing, for the most part, but I haven't actually taken the time to sit down and figure out what I … [Read more...] about Personal Finance Basics: Career Planning
Wow, it felt like the Carnival of Personal Finance #139 was just last week. How time flies! Well, this week The Financial Blogger brings us a new edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. In fact, it's so new that they even added one more to its … [Read more...] about Best Finance Articles from the Carnival of Personal Finance #140
