Blogs about your Finances
Techno-Regression
May 08, 2011 • Posted under: Finances
After joining modern life a year or three back through upgrading my ‘connectivity’ via smart phone plans and HD cable subscriptions, I’m going back to my cave. Call me a Luddite, I don’t care. As a midlife man with way too many things going on at this point, the cost of connectivity was simply getting too high for my taste. That cost was more than the…
When Do You Stop Chasing
April 17, 2011 • Posted under: Finances, Lifestyle
Midlife men: I don’t know if this blog entry will be characterized as whining or simply the mumblings of one confused midlife male. As always, I invite you to go with me as I talk out loud here and hopefully WE will arrive at a mutually satisfactory place by the end of this. Let me start by saying that I am a somewhat driven person, achievement oriented. Some might say overly…
Old and New Year’s Resolutions
December 29, 2010 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Career, Finances, Lifestyle, Relationships
I guess there is something in the human psyche that views endings as distinctly different from beginnings. Now that I’ve read what I just wrote, even I want to go ‘Well, duh!” But hold on to your Victoria’s Secret catalog here a second! Or as my buddy says, ‘before you get your panties in a bunch,’ give me a little room to work here. …
What Might Have Been
October 22, 2010 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Career, Finances, Lifestyle, Relationships
John Greenleaf Whittier in the poem, Maud Muller, wrote: 'For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"' Now being a kid from rural Nebraska, I’d never read this poem, though I had heard this particular quote before. The poem came up in an email exchange I had recently with a friend and somewhere along the line my friend…
You Don’t Have to Do Anything to Get Older
October 08, 2010 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Career, Finances, Lifestyle
You don’t have to talk very long with a person in midlife before the topic of ‘how time flies’ will come up. It should come up. It is downright troubling to me, even annoying, how fast time goes by. I think it is a prime driver of midlife ‘crises’ – the awareness and subsequent knee jerk response to this felt phenomenon. I call it knee…
Sometimes I Do What I Want to Do
September 04, 2010 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Career, Finances, Lifestyle
There are quotes in certain movies that just strike me right between the eyes, right there while I’m listening and I never forget them. One of my favorite movies, one that I watch at least two to three times a year, is Gladiator, released in 2000. Recall that Maximus, a general of one of the Roman armies of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, played by Russell Crowe, is asked to assume…
