In my post Lost Middle-aged Man Learns to Love Son’s Stinky Jersey, I subjected myself to constructive self-criticism for how I handled child discipline. Among…
When we spent a fair amount of time away each of the last three summers in coastal Southern California, my son and I latched onto…
When I began the prequalification process for a vacation home in the spring, the mortgage consultant gave me several options. One option was to pretend…
Operation Austere August has come and gone. From August 3rd through August 31st, I ate essentially nothing other than beans and rice for all meals.…
Burry’s Scion Asset Management put $1.6 billion to work betting against the stock market. “Michael Burry was immortalized in the film “The Big Short” for…
I spoke with a guy the other day who sold his house into the recent strong seller’s market. He had a lot of equity so…
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Isaiah 22:13 On August 3rd, 2023, I will commence Operation Austere August. I had been thinking…
In January I posted my New Year’s Resolutions. Here is the Second Quarter Report for the period ending June 30, 2023. Eat professionally prepared meals judiciously. GRADE:…
Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling are the Four Horseman of relationship failure according to The Gottman Institute. As a middle-aged man who has been married…
I declared 2022 the year of the abundancy mindset. I did that to counterbalance a proclivity toward toward scarcity, defense, security, and minimalism. That proclivity remains.…