God and Money: Lesbians Go To Church
"He is risen, he is not here." -- Mark 16:6 Jeanine and I went to church it was an Easter thing. Church is always a strange experience for me because…
Caught Up in Real Estate Fever
"Successful people turn everyone who can help them into sometime mentors." -- John Crosby With my real estate investments, I've practiced the buy and hold strategy. This is something that…
Jim Cramer Will Never Be A Gay Icon
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de St. Exupery Even with all the filters…
Seduced by Adjustable Rate Loans & Teaser Rates
"Desperate maladies require desperate remedies." -- French Proverb Here's the sad story of the day. "We were having a hard time meeting bills at the time we refinanced. It seems…
Housing Bubble and Affordability
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." -- Albert Camus Michael Mandel recently wrote a commentary for BusinessWeek about the housing bubble entitled: Think of…
Gambling: Gays Don’t Own This Addiction
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." -- Ayn Rand I'm heading off to Las Vegas…
Perfect Vision: A View on the Cost of Health Care
"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything." -- Arabic Proverb Aside from my annual checkup, I can't remember the last time I got sick…
Recipe: Clutter2Cash’s Kale & Kielbasa Soup
So far we have received kale with each organic vegetable delivery. Luckily I have found a recipe for kale that LaLa actually likes. It's based on my mother's delicious Kale…
Time Out From Work
"The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for." -- William Blake I've written before about taking a sabbatical. I've never really had…
My Money or My Dog
This last month has been a frustrating one. My little girl, Celie, is going deaf and we are trying to figure out ways to communicate with her non-verbally. Right now,…