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Book review: “You Should Be Grateful”
“You Should Be Grateful”: Stories of race, identify, and transracial adoption, by Angela Tucker. I came across Angela Tucker while googling adoption. I listened to one of her…
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Gaps in my financial experience
Because of my parents’ generosity, I don’t have experience with two major expenses that it seems a majority of people have to deal with: student loans and a…
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How much is walking worth?
On Monday, someone came from the wheelchair company to measure me for a wheelchair. He explained that the standard-issue wheelchairs are made in Mexico, but the fancy ones…
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Book review: Wicked Marigold
(Spoilers to follow.) I am just outside the demographic for Wicked Marigold, by Caroline Carlson. This is an elementary or middle school-aged novel, and sometimes that is just…
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On death and dying
I haven’t had as much experience with death as some. On one hand, my childhood contained plenty of animal death. Cows died sometimes. My dad shot three of…
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Lumpy bumpy expenses and peace of mind
When I was using a Google Sheets spreadsheet to track our purchases, I found that “one time” expenses were always popping up. There would be the airline tickets…
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