I write about finance, management and economy, my book “Money Studies” is out now.

We’re in that strange stretch of the school calendar where it’s basically a series of three- and four-day weeks with random holidays here and there. Federal holidays, Jewish holidays, Fall Break, PSAT testing, teacher workdays, and and and. Next week…

I spent all of yesterday believing it was Wednesday. The whole day. It wasn’t until dinner when one of the kids said, “Isn’t Thursday supposed to be Make It Your Damned Self night?” that I realized I was on the…

We were in Austin last weekend for Todd’s 20th reunion from UT’s MBA program. Somehow it’s been twenty years since we lived there for his studies and reunited with old friends, both the ones we’ve actually kept up with and…

A big task of mine this past weekend was cleaning out the fridge. It started as “throw out the leftovers” but quickly turned into “take everything out, including the shelves, and scrub like a maniac”… as it always seems to.…

We saw Leanne Morgan on Saturday, and she was just as funny live as I’d hoped. Her recent glow-up looks like an overnight success, but the woman’s been grinding at this for 30 years. Respect. Also, plot twist: Oprah and…

This weekend was gray and rainy, so I finally tackled the projects I’ve been putting off since, oh, about 2017. Specifically: the messes that live under our kitchen and bathroom sinks. You know the ones. A disheveled graveyard of expired…