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My Money And My Life – Reminiscence
It is a big task, and no one else can do it for me. As I’ve mentioned before, now that I have a modified mortgage and a clearer quantification of my finances, I intend to step through the Nine Step Program that … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 step, assets, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., early retirement, emotions, engineer, enough, financial independence, frugal, frugality, interest rates, investing, Joe Dominguez, liabilities, loan modification, MMAML, Money & Life, mortgage, mortgage modification, net worth, New Road Map, Nine Step Program, NRM, personal finance, portfolio, Simple Living, stocks, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, YMOYL, Your Money or Your Life
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2013
Back by popular demand, but mostly because I do this anyway, it’s my semi-annual review of my stocks. For over a decade I’ve ended every June and December with a simple exercise: in a few sentences, well, maybe a few … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, speaking, stocks, wealth
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Abnormal And Extraordinary Surprises
“It’s 5am. Wake up and look at the news.” It wasn’t the first time I’ve had a dream like that. Sure enough, MicroVision had just published a press release at 5am. I wasn’t very surprised. Okay, so maybe I’m a … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, credit card, debt, foreclosure, forgiveness, housing, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, occupy, personal finance, pico projectors, picop, stocks, wealth, Whidbey
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Notice Foreclosure Notice
Yesterday I got the call. The mortgage company called, and in a rare case, I answered. In their usual manner, they delivered the news that they will begin foreclosure on my house on March 17th. I can’t recall their quote … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Charity, consulting, dancing, debt, entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, home, house, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, occupy, personal finance, Scotland, self publishing, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth, writing
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Mortgage Company Tactics
Yesterday I got The Call, the call from the mortgage company when they switched from good cop to bad cop. The call was expected. The tone surprised me. My options are clearer now. The call was expected because October’s payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, consulting, debt, entrepreneur, home, house, housing, investing, LTBH, mortgage, personal finance, photos, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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Living On Debt
Tough choices must be made. Amidst the cloud of abstractions and advice wrapped around people in economic hard times, this post is about a bit of reality. Yesterday is the first time I’ve sent in a bare fraction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, consulting, credit, credit card, debt, Financial Integrity, frugal, frugality, Golden Rule, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, personal finance, photos, Simple Living, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth
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I Like Unlikely Iceland
It will never happen, and yet it did. My friends thought that one of my ideas was ludicrous and that it could never happen. I disagreed. In times of severe economic crisis sacrifices must be made. I suggested that sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroids, dark energy, dark matter, debt, engineer, Iceland, investing, job, mortgage, occupy, personal finance, security, stocks, unemployment, wealth
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