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What Is The Middle Class?

The term middle class gets thrown around a lot.  It seems that all politicians pay lip service to helping the middle class, but few define what they believe it is.  What is the middle class? Is it based on income, on education, on wealth, or on lifestyle? What Is The …

Focus On What You Can Control

For life in general one of my favorite pieces of advice is the serenity prayer.  When I get stressed out or frustrated, I try to repeat it to myself in order to adjust my viewpoint.  The most basic part of the serenity prayer is breaking down problems in life into …

What I am Thankful For In 2015

Sometimes listing our gripes and outrages of the day is easier than to talk about what is going well. On a personal level this has been a great year for me, and for the world as a whole, despite some tragedies like the recent attack on Paris, we as a …

Money Isn’t Everything

I’m a big fan of money, which if you’ve read any of my 175 posts to date, you would already know that lol.  Sometimes opportunities come along to make a bit of extra money that you have to turn down and it hurts,  a lot.  Over the last 10 years …