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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, showing her keys means car ride and the leash means going outside. We have also found that we can no longer leave her off the…
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Late Adopter: Online Bill Pay
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” — Adlai Stevenson In 1999, I arrived in California and went to work for an Idealab company called PayMyBills.com. It was the heyday of the Internet start-up and I remember thinking my first week that I had picked a…
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Feel-Good Shopping
“Shopping is the entertainment of the poor” — Tom Delamater Most women have watched an episode of Sex and the City and can relate on some level to Carrie’s love of shopping and shoes. Much has been written about women and their compulsion to shop. But recently, I had a conversation with a friend and…
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Money Personalities: LGBT Relationships
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Elizabeth Browning Throughout our partnership, Jeanine and I have never argued about money. We have had many money discussions and when one has held a different view then we have talked about it to reach a middle ground on the…
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Cruisin’ Lesbians: Olivia Wears Plastic
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.” — John Foster Dulles In the past, I’ve talked about predatory marketing practices of credit card companies especially with college students. Jeffrey at Saving Advice found the latest sneaky niche…
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Thin Means More Money
“We spend the first 3/4 of our lives using our health to gain wealth, and the last 1/4 using our wealth to preserve our health.” — Author Unknown A few years ago I lost forty pounds and have kept it off except for the 8 lbs that slowly crept back over time. When I started…
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Getting Ahead at Tax Time
“I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.” – Terri Guillemets I recently wrote an article appearing in the latest issue of the BLADE, a Southern California GLBT magazine. I wanted to reprint it here… Every year as April 15th approaches, we are gently reminded that a good portion of our…
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Google Finance Launches Beta
Travelgnome alerted me to the news that google has finally launched a beta of their financial news service, Google Finance. They certainly have a long way to go to catch up to Yahoo! Finance, but I like the looks of where they’re going. Right now, their initial offerings seem aimed at investors in research mode…
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Downside of Youth
“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s-youth.” — Vincent van Gogh Awhile back, I mentioned the Gen Y movement that Anya Kamenetz inspired with her book, Generation Debt. On Sunday, Paul J. Lim continued with thoughts on the young investor in his piece for The New York Times entitled:…
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Baby Race & Other Choices for Lesbian Mommies
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus Someone recently posted a comment asking if Jeanine and I had a discussion about the race of our baby…
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