But surely some of you investors that are trying to catch a rising star… or a falling knife… can learn from it. It was somewhere in the early 90’s that I started investing in the stock market. At first it was mutual funds. It was at a time where I…

It’s been a while since writing anything fresh, but it’s common for me to hit dry spells. Something usually comes along that inspires a piece that has been percolating — perhaps even put on the back burner for a while— and then, the floodgate opens. This afternoon I received a…

I always joke about how I should have a Reality TV Show. It wouldn’t even need to be scripted for maximum entertainment. The camera could just follow me around all day and record the actual stuff that happens. Of course, for maximum enjoyment, it would be best if they could…

I’ve been slowly planning a semi-permanent move to Costa Rica. I say semi because as long as my mom is with us, time will be split between here and the States. Here’s why. Today I’ll have a lot of time to reflect on this move, traveling on the bus to…

For those of you that follow my Costa Rica adventures, you may remember little Joshua. He only weighs 47 kilos at age 14 and a half, but he has more talent packed in there than anyone I’ve ever met, with the exception of my husband, Fred I have watched this…

It was a little over a year ago when I wrote of the most incredible story, here, about a truck, the universe and how it tends to know what it’s doing. It doesn’t need any help from us. …

There is a popular saying that I will paraphrase, that goes like this — hang out with the people you want to be like. How about you hang out with the people you like? I get the concept of hanging out with people you want to be like, or the…

Valentine’s Day 2021 has come and gone. Since I am a hopeless romantic, I tried forcing myself to write something inspiring and uplifting. A story of hope and all kinds of mushy stuff, without the sadness, like what I wrote a year ago, here. Last year this time things were…

Today was a very interesting day in my world of finance. Now let me preface this by saying, I am the absolute worst businessperson in the world. Not only do I not balance any of my checkbooks, I don’t think I have one set of checkbooks that I write consecutive…