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Gay Executive Life: the Politics of Early Days
As a newly-hired gay executive in a huge global company, how much do you reveal about yourself, and to whom? Your first moves could make or break your career with the company, so I intended to start out strong, confident — and out. Of course, the best laid plans of mice and men often go…
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Free Air Conditioning for the Home
One of the best investments anyone can make for using their AC less and cool the house down is an Indoor/Outdoor thermometer. I check this lil’ guy everyday: I check it for how to bundle up when riding my scooter I use it to see if the heat in the house is my imagination or…
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Importance of a Mid-year Financial Review
The end of July is quickly approaching. Summer is in full bloom! Barbeques are hot and the watermelon is cool. We are far from next the next personal tax deadline and probably thinking…taxes shmaxes! July is the perfect time to consider a mid-year financial review. Putting a little time into assessing your current position can…
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Lesbians and IVF: Coping with the Cost of Infertility
“The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk about outside your body.” — Katherine Hadley Jeanine and I have been trying to make a baby for over eighteen months and this latest round of IVF pushed us passed the $42,000 mark. We learned a couple of weeks ago…
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The Benefits of Online Banking and Bill Pay
One of the most important aspects of polishing my credit into a worthy rating over the past couple of years has been the conversion to mostly online banking and the complete transfer of all of my bill payment into electronic form. For some, especially those born after 1982 — known as Generation Y, never having…
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Internet Radio Can Still Be Saved
U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D-Wash) is one of the sponsors of the Internet Radio Equality Act that has been introduced to the House and Senate. The bill would reverse the March 2, 2007 decision of the federal Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) that nearly brought down internet radio on July 15, 2007, the now softened deadline…
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Ten Money Questions for Kirk Snyder
Kirk Snyder speaks and writes about why organizations under the management of white-collar gay male executives are more harmonious, interconnected, and successful. Best known as the author of “The G Quotient” and “Lavender Road to Success,” Kirk is recognized as an authority on the contemporary workplace and business leadership. Career and money… since these are…
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Timing the Market is a Bad Move
Timing the market is a bad move. Unless you are a student of Warren Buffet and have extensive experience in money management, I suggest forgetting about what the dollar is doing, worry not about the upcoming election (as if things really change when a Democrat or a Republican wins the White House), and stop waiting…
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More-With-Less: A Life With Less Is A Life Worth More
I’m chiming in (a day early) on the buzz and excitement related to religion and personal finance. My best friend of twenty-five years, Paul, and his wife, Libby, write about frugal living, family, arts, crafts, mechanics, and religion at The Full Cup. From left to right are Paul, Gabriel, Ezra, and Libby. Libby recently wrote…
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Sacred Writings on Money Blogs
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” — Jonathan Swift On Sunday, the Personal Finance blogosphere went into a tizzy over a guest post at Get Rich Slowly, a popular blog written by J.D. The guest blogger, from Free Money Finance (FMF) wrote about why he thinks a…
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