This week, between working my regular full-time job and looking, endlessly, at potential real estate investment opportunities, I had little time to reflect. But, we did find time to duck away for an overnight trip up the coast for two days of nonstop kayaking, fishing, and (at least theoretically) looking for scallops for the upcoming […]
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You’re not believing the trap of the “I could never…” crowd, are you? The ones whose INSTANT reaction to anything other than working-in-a-cubicle-until-you-retire-at-65 is a gasp, followed by a (barely masked) eye roll? The ones who would never even think of actually sailing off into the sunset? These days, it seems the communal reaction to […]
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Apparently, by the time we reach “Mom age,” our tastes are supposed to have changed. We’re supposed to like meeting our other mom friends for coffee after the kids get off to school, dressing our children up in matchy-matchy outfits, and shopping for garden art. Yeah….I’m NOT that kind of Mom.What I am is a […]
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J. Money over at BudgetsareSexy recently did a poll of his Twitter followers, asking what they wanted more of: Now, given these choices, I would have picked money. After all, the man writes a money blog…so no surprises there. But mostly I thought that the things I really wanted more of weren’t on the list. Possibly […]
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We have all heard the “just do it” slogan repeated more times than I can count. I didn’t bother to count how many times it appears in this video…but it’s a LOT. And while Shia LaBeouf screaming “Just do it!” at you probably isn’t a big motivator (or maybe it is!), I find more […]
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What percentage of your weekly activities are obligatory as opposed to desired? I think I need a giant blinking light over my bathroom mirror that reads “Do you really WANT to do this?” in bright pink lettering. Maybe then I’d remember not to overload our calendars so much that I end up wanting to quit absolutely […]
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If you’ve never been to the Florida Keys and you’re within a reasonable driving distance (say, most of the South Eastern US) – why on earth not? Besides being the inspiration for this blog, the Keys contain: The only living coral barrier reef in the United States (and third-largest in the world!) The easiest-to-access tropical […]
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My 5 year old self wanted to be a marine biologist. Visits to the aquarium and the ocean had convinced me, quite solidly, that I would be happy working with animals in the water. So did my 15 year old self. Now a certified scuba diver and a volunteer for animal rescue, I wanted nothing more […]
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It’s tax time, and that means statements arriving in the mail for everything from interest income to student loan interest expenses. And yes, that means, for 9-to-5 employees, the arrival of the annual W-2, showing the wages we earned last year. In August, I turned 35. And this month, for the first time, my W-2 showed […]
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When I first started to get the “itch” – the urge, on a regular basis, to quit my corporate job and sail off into the sunset – I started reading like crazy. After a colleague, in her early 40s, moved aboard a sailboat and worked from port, after her kids left for college, I realized […]
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