Caring for your community as COVID-19 approaches
How are you doing about the impending (or already present) infections in your community? When we can’t do much to control our own destinies, it’s human nature to be stressed. Here are ways I or members of my community have been taking control of small actions recently. I’ve verbalized to…
COVID-19 and teaching experiences for kids
COVID-19 is stressing many families right now. Parents are asking, what do I talk about with my children? From a financial perspective, in my family we are talking about what various people are doing. For example, we have accelerated purchases that we would normally make, in the form of non-perishables…
What’s happened elsewhere?
There’s a lot going on in the world right now. Some are struggling with the market volitility. Some are struggling with food instability, the need for a paycheck, and how they’ll handle child care. Others are struggling with what to do about COVID19. We don’t have a crystal ball, we…
Four walls
A lot of financial advisors are helping clients with the current down and volatility of the stock market. It’s true, what’s happened there is scary. Others are stressed about what to do about work due to infection. Occurrences for taking sick days, occurrences for staying home with children if schools…
Sex as a bear market
Setting: Middle school classroom Scene: Students squirming in their seats, or actively avoiding paying attention. Teacher at the front of the room, flushed and heavily sweating. PowerPoint display of male and female anatomy It’s middle school sex ed class. Nobody (students or teacher) is comfortable. None of the students want…
Class Choice
When I teach whitewater kayaking, the very first thing students learn to do is wet exit. That is, tip the boat upside-down, and get out. Without panicing. Why? Because it’s not IF your kayak tips over in whitewater, it’s only a matter of WHEN. Similarly, I teach my students to…
Invest in bees
I’m a nature nut. I love to be outside. -20 degrees Fahrenheit, when the sun is shining and the air is calm, is beautiful winter weather in my opinion. Not everyone would agree with me, but that’s okay. It’s not okay when parts of our natural world start disappearing. Like…
Value of additional income
With it being tax season, my kiddos were watching me spread out all of our family tax paperwork across the kitchen table, and of course wanted to know more. I didn’t think they were going to get much value from a line-by-line review of our tax return however 😛 Instead,…
“Something” changed in Minnesota tax law
It’s tax season! And that means I’m getting some interesting tax questions to share with you all 🙂 Here’s one I got that wasn’t really framed as a question, but it definitely deserved to be addressed. Someone said “Something changed in my Minnesota taxes, we got a whole bunch more…
What is a good day?
To know what a good day is to you, it helps to know who you are, and what you value. I’m not a real big believer in “quizzes”, those online personality tests that tell you you’re Harry Potter vs Snape, Riker vs Picard, etc. But there is value in some…