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Sleeping With Money: How to Undo a Wedding
In this week's Sleeping With Money I let you in on some of the foibles of my past. Oh dear, how we queers love serial monogamy! And so many of…
The Price of Your Vice: The Financial Benefits of Quitting
I have a delicate constitution. Nicotine, drugs and alcohol have always made me sick, but I do have one problem. It's Chocolate. I am talking true problem here, as in:…
How to Live and Travel Rent Free: House-sitting and Couch-Surfing!
I call it "Vaga-bonding". I'm bonding with new places, pets and people this year. One of the many wonderful benefits of being queer is worldwide queer community and one of…
Corporate America Loves Queers!?
In my chosen hometown of Seattle, last year's Pride was different. It was downtown instead of in the hip queer-ish Capital Hill neighborhood. It was bigger, it was longer and…
WWYD: Shop at Trader Joe’s?
I have been touring, conferencing and researching for my writing by car for the last two weeks. I have eaten almost nothing but successfully corporate Trader Joe's from my cooler…
Beauty “Secrets”
Stop buying your favorite fancy cosmetics? I'm talking to both women and men here. (In fact, at Queercents, I may be a little more to men!) You can save money…
How to Pay a Nanny/Babysitter
For LGBT Families Day, I thought I would answer, as a former nanny with 11 years experience, the burning question I see on Craigslist Childcare columns these days: What and…
Not So Starving Artists: 4 tricks
Trick One: Stop "Big Break" Thinking. For a while I checked my email before bed expecting to see a letter asking if Faith Hill could buy a few of…
In Need of Tissues
As my second set of friends embark on a pregnancy by a sperm donor, I read an ad in the paper offering $100 for the blood plasma of allergy sufferers.…
Tahiti Is Possible
My mind has been focused on one thing in the last two weeks- Tahiti. Now, I am not the type of girl to spend my life dreaming of things I…