It's a Journey

hire yourself

Hire Yourself Tax season always brought the same question to mind: why is it still this stressful for so many people, when the software gets easier and cheaper every year? I've seen the full range. Some people have everything to me the day filing opens, organized...

Pay for your own coffee

Pay for Your Own Coffee I have friends currently in the dating stage of life, which is fascinating to hear about secondhand, and, being me, the money part catches my attention most. Nearly every friend I have insists it's the guy's job to pay for dinner and drinks....

You Still have to Talk to them

You'll Still Have to Talk to Them From my very unofficial polling of people I meet, money and parenting issues are the two biggest causes of divorce. I had a slightly funny, slightly tragic conversation with a friend recently. We were commiserating over both having...

Step 9

  Step 9 Divorce is usually the end result of a fairly typical progression: You get married. You begin navigating married life together. You and your partner start facing real challenges. You...

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Advocate, Mom, Writer

My days these days are mostly advocacy, with my kids always first, and hiking, biking, and cold plunging worked in whenever I can. Winter cold plunges aren’t for everyone, but there’s a strange kind of beauty and calm in it that I’ve come to need.

Separation was a journey. It took time, and it taught me most of what I know now.