Archives for Opinion - Page 14
Career-Related and Queer-Related News Clipping
Sexual harassment or discrimination of any kind on the job can be a devastating event both emotionally and financially. This kind of emergency is among those that an emergency fund…
A Match Made in Heaven
All too often I talk with clients who have the opportunity to participate in their company-sponsored 401(k) and simply don't. "Even when there's a match?" I ask. "I can't afford…
Corporate America Loves Queers!?
In my chosen hometown of Seattle, last year's Pride was different. It was downtown instead of in the hip queer-ish Capital Hill neighborhood. It was bigger, it was longer and…
Lesbian Couple vs. Countrywide Home Loans
Oh how mainstream media fails us. Here's a story that you probably haven't heard. A lesbian couple in New York who filed a federal law suit against Countrywide Home Loans.…
Avoiding Hidden Costs with Hotel Rooms
"People expect good service but few are willing to give it." -- Robert Gately Whenever you stay at a resort, there seems to be 10 bellmen eager to help with…
Yellow and blue make green
Ad campaigns have a funny way of sticking in our minds. Even the simplest slogan can reverberate in our lives longer than we wish. Although I was very young when…
Money, Math and a Defense of Diet Coke Plus
I keep saying that I hate math, but about twice a month I'm writing about a calculation that shows some sort of annual savings or squandering. Methinks it's time I…
How to Pay a Nanny/Babysitter
For LGBT Families Day, I thought I would answer, as a former nanny with 11 years experience, the burning question I see on Craigslist Childcare columns these days: What and…
Splurging: A Slice of Heaven in Rehoboth Beach
A week or so ago Kim & I were in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for our usual May romp at the beach. I love the slower, empty pace of the beach…
Wardrobe Refashioning
Perhaps it's because the weather is so beautiful. Perhaps it's because vegetables are sprouting in our garden. Whatever the reason, I've been feeling creative. While surfing the internet one day,…