decisions

Designing your life

Posted 11 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer

Key decisions that you make-especially when you're young, but also later--have implications that ripple through the whole rest of your life. People treat these early decisions--decisions like whether to go to college and what degree to get--as if they were unchangeable. They put them in the back of their mind and look to the future. It's true that what's past is past, but there are good reasons to keep these decisions clearly in mind when you make future decisions. It's never too late to design your life.

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Being Poor Without Being Pitiful

Posted 33 weeks 4 days ago by Linsey Knerl

Personal Finance

I have spent a good portion of my young life being poor. Growing up on a small family farm during the agriculture crises in the 80’s gave me perspective on what poverty really means. Eating cabbage soup for most meals, riding in cars with holes in the floorboards and doors welded shut, and picking out clothing from among the abandoned items in the school’s lost and found will always give me something to compare my financial situation to when times get a little tough.

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