Image credit: Photo by kaneda99 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have a bazillion ("No," my son Austen, who is very proper about his numbers, would insist, "there's no such thing as a bazillion!" Fine then, a gajillion?) things I want to get out of my head and onto this virtual paper, but I [...]
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In Which I Teach my Daughter a Lesson
Image credit: Photo by Alejandro Castro on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It was true love, the moment I saw it. I was bathed in light and heard angels singing (no, really, that wasn't just the glow for the screen and the background music for the ad). There it was: The Beatles Rock Band, a [...]
My Word for 2009
Image of the Eagle Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope At the end of last year, I decided I was done with New Year's resolutions. Instead, I picked an intention word for the year: someplace for me to set my focus. My word for 2008 was Happy. And I have to say, that worked out [...]
Capitalizing on Addiction
Image credit: Photo by hellochris on Flickr A year ago, when I was trying to get through to my husband that we were spending faster than we were earning and that our credit cushion was wearing dangerously thin, he had a brilliant idea, "Let's get another credit card." Yep. We're running out of credit, we'll [...]
I’m Happy to Tell You about my Sex Life, but Money? Yikes!
Image credit: Photo by Falcifer on Flickr When my husband started recovery around sex addiction and I started working on my own codependency, we didn't share our struggles with our extended family, but we did share with quite a few close and trusted friends. And I shared with people in an online group I was [...]
Speaking of Autism and Money…
A friend who is an OT and mom of an autistic son forwarded me a link to Autism Free Zone that I thought might be useful to some of you (although I'm really not fond of the double meaning in the name). According the site's creators, who are also parents of an autistic child, the [...]
Working on Haikus Instead of Taxes
A lovely spring day:Fresh breeze goes to charityas I do taxes. Form 1040 askswhat is your occupation?Can I say "breathing?" The sun, a bright gemset in a blue crystal sky.Can I write it off? Bird at my windowwhirls furiously againstits own reflection. TurboTax whirringon our deepest mystery:What is our balance?
I Am Uncle Billy
I was at the bank the other day making a hefty deposit: part in cash but the bulk in check. I went into the bank, because I don't trust ATM machines with large deposits; I want an actual physical receipt from an actual physical person. I counted out the money and decided to keep $25 [...]
Clean Slate
"My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals...Zuzu's petals! There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!"~George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life There have been times I've experienced computer problems when I would spend hours and hours cleaning up this and patching that. And at some point I'd find it was just [...]
24 Steps
Recently, in addition to attending 12 Step meetings for sex addiction, my husband has started attending Debtors Anonymous, a 12 Step for those with compulsive debt problems. I'm a bit skeptical of this myself; while we do have an overwhelming debt problem, I'm not certain that it was the result of compulsive behavior. I do [...]
