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Finances Dancing In The Rain
It’s raining again. Ah, that feels good. Rain means water for me, my garden, and for everyone else. I like rain. When I am hiking I prefer the endless sunny days people romanticize; but even then, I hope it’s rained … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing, entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, Great Recession, Hoh River, housing, investing, personal finance, Second Great Depression, Sequim, Simple Living, stocks, wealth, writing
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Friends Grow My Garden
I thank my friends for my garden. I’ve tried gardening for decades, never growing enough to make it worthwhile, but being persistent because I want to know how to grow. This year is a culmination of efforts and gifts, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, community, disaster preparedness, food, frugal, frugality, garden, gifts, Langley, personal finance, sharing, sharing economy, Simple Living, sustainability, Whidbey
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Digging On Earth Day
I swung a pulaski today. Not familiar with the tool? Take a mattock, which is like a very heavy hoe, add an axe head and you get a very heavy hunk of steel that’s great for digging out roots. Professionals … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, conservation, Earth Day, frugal, frugality, housing, Land Trust, personal finance, Simple Living, volunteering charity, WCLT, Whidbey
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Tricky Taxes Trips And Traps
Thanks, Elizabeth. It was time to file my taxes, and some fluky results in TurboTax were nicely resolved by Elizabeth from their help desk. Thanks to all my friends I called while fighting off anxiety attacks as I struggled through … Continue reading
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Tagged 1099, 1099 Economy, ACA, Art, books, community, consulting, dance, frugal, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, healthcare, housing, investing, LTBH, mortgage, ObamaCare, Panama Papers, personal finance, photos, self employed health insurace, stocks, taxes, TurboTax, wealth, Wealth Inequality, writing
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Missing MVIS Catalysts
Surely, MicroVision and MVIS would finally get some good news in March. Or not. Provide four opportunities for positive surprises and at least one of them will succeed. Yes? Evidently, no. Oh yeah, and then there was the one big … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, consulting, entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, housing, investing, jobs, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks, wealth
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Flushing Septic Anxieties
Finally, I can tell yet another of the stories that must remain unspoken. Making less than expenses creates chapters of stories that are either too embarrassing or expensive to reveal. Today, I got my septic tanks pumped. That may sound … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, housing, personal finance, septic systems, Simple Living, taboos
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Weirdnesses Approaching
As if the world wasn’t weird enough, it’s getting weirder. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Luckily, humans evolved to be adaptable, and that adaptability is being tested. The following is a Friday night random list of shifts, changes, and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Airplane design, artifical intelligence, Atomic Age, auto autos, automation, autonomous, aviation, bitcoin, blockchain, Cascades, coal, commodities, decentralized, driveless cars, driverless vehicles, earthquakes, fossil fuels, frugal, frugality, gas, graphene, high frequency trading, housing, inflation, infrastructure, investing, invisibility, minimalism, oil, personal finance, power, renewable energy, renewables, Simple Living, solar, Tiny Houses, trends, tsunami, wind
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MicroVision And Catalysts
MicroVision could use a catalyst. As a startup company that is now old enough to drive, it has been accumulating a positive potential for over a decade. A year ago, I created a chart to try illustrating the specifics of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Celluon, Clinton, consulting, Cultus Bay, entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, picoprojector, portable projector, RoBoHoN, Sandy Hook, Sharp, small town, Sony, stocks, Whidbey, writing
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HitRecord And Illustrating Wealth Inequality
Last night’s class ended with my common refrain; “The most powerful tool we have is each other.” The class was part of a series I am teaching about Social Media for Writers. Rather than stand up there and pretend that … Continue reading
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Tagged collaborations, consulting, cooperation, crowdsourcing, entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, hitrecord, Oxfam, photography, photos, sharing economy, social media, wealth, Wealth Inequality, writing
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Shifting Silly Plans
Ignore the calendar. Spring is here. My potatoes and garlic told me so. So did the skunk cabbage. I don’t know who or what to thank or blame, but in my pantry and outside potatoes and garlic are sending out … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artists, books, catalyze, consulting, entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, garlic, investing, Just Keep Pedaling, mushrooms, personal finance, photos, potatoes, program planning, project planning, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, strategic planning, sustainability, sustainable, teaching, writing
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