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Popular Posts 2022
Another year. Another period of posting; but the ten most popular posts are all from before 2022. Why? MicroVision. MicroVision’s 2021 was such a story that it dominated this blogs traffic, including previous years’ MicroVision posts as people researched the … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, health care, health insurance, healthcare, HoloLens, housing, inventions, investing, Mental Health, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, Re-retirement, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, stocks, sustainability, tidal power
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Almost A Week Off
Shh. I slept in. And then I did it again. It almost felt like the first time I retired. This year I’ve finished three books. I’ve also given presentations, helped people with their ideas and businesses, and basically been an … Continue reading
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Tagged American Dream, apocaloptimist, author, Clarity Break, consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., Dugualla Bay, Firewatcher, Fort Ebey, frugal, frugality, housing, Kettle Pot Cup, net worth, personal finance, photography, science fiction, tea, Twelve Month series, Twelve Months, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Artistic Passive Income
A reader, or at least a buyer, helped keep one of my books alive, today. Twelve Months at Merritt Lake had its first sale in over a year, today. I wrote it in 2006, definitely not even close to today. … Continue reading
Affordable And Unaffordable Housing
(WA state required disclosure: I’m a broker at Dalton Realty, Inc. http://whidbeyrealtor.com/). My house’s tax assessment came in today. Yesterday I was part of a group meeting about affordable housing in one of your local tourist towns: Langley. A month … Continue reading
Searching For A New Normal In Real Estate And Affordability
(Disclosure required because I’m writing about real estate: I’m a broker at Dalton Realty, Inc. http://whidbeyrealtor.com/. Not a plug for my services, but evidently you know where to find me.) One big thing makes me think about bigger things, and … Continue reading
Reflecting On 2021 – A List
2021 is over. Yay. Whew. Wow. I felt exhausted, but that’s because I was. It was a challenging year. Ah, but there had to be good in there, and I wanted to remind myself of it. I felt like I … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, frugal, HELOC, hiking, housing, investing, Jeep, MVIS, pandemic, personal finance, photography, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, retiring anxieties, stocks, truck, Twelve Month series, Whidbey, writing
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Five Years Later 2016-2021
I missed my cue! Five years and one month ago I wrote a post about what life could be like five years later, September 2021. Let’s have fun tearing apart my own predictions. (Allow me to remind you and me … Continue reading
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Tagged #LearnFromHome, #WorkFromHome, artists, community, commuting, coworks, decentralized, ferry, frugality, Great Recession, Great Resignation, housing, infrastructure, learn from home, personal finance, real estate, remote work, rural distancing, sustainability, tourism, wealth, Whidbey, Whidbey Telecom, work from home
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A Home Loan To Retire Anxieties
A nice way to start the day, sending out a ‘thank you’ email, arranging to pay an overdue bill, contacting a doctor I actually enjoy visiting, and a hopefully scheduling a massage. Money makes things move. For several months I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, frugal, frugality, HELOC, Home Equity Line Of Credit, housing, investing, mortgage, mortgage modification, MVIS, personal finance, poverty, real estate, refinancing, stocks, Whidbey
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Affording Affordable Housing
“We need more affordable housing!” So goes the cry in the country. I think we need to review those words, and their connotations. A different emphasis may be more useful. And that ‘we’ can include me – if I had … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, housing, Living Wage, real estate, real estate broker, Whidbey Island
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