Disproportionately High Number of LGBT Youths In Homeless Population
A recent New York Times article written by Ian Urbina called, Gay Youths Find Place to Call Home in Specialty Shelters, hits close to home for me, and perhaps for…
Negotiating Finances While Still Living at Home
I moved out of my parents' house a couple weeks after I turned 18. For various reasons, the largest being financial, I scurried back home with my metaphorical tail between…
Career & Money – Part 7: Starting Your Own Business
In the last few articles in this series I focused on finding and landing the job. This assumes that after taking a deep look at your values that working for…
Sleeping with Money: Financial Expectations
"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." -- Peter McWilliams This…
Creative Online Family (or Personal) Budgeting Tool
One of the biggest challenges to designing a well-balanced and flexible budget are daily expenses. They cannot easily be pre-determine, meaning it is hard to plan for them, and even…
Money and Mates: Compatibility Factor
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Finding a balance between money styles can be harder…
WWYD: Ask for Help or Screw the Scanner?
I don't know about you but this new trend toward self checkout in stores has hit on my last nerve. While I am all for being self sufficient when I…
Queercents introduces Adam Nelson
We have a new contributing writer at Queercents! Adam Nelson joins us from Madison, Wisconsin where he'll graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a law degree in 2008. I'm…
Tahiti Is Possible
My mind has been focused on one thing in the last two weeks- Tahiti. Now, I am not the type of girl to spend my life dreaming of things I…
Almost Debt Free: Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
"When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries." -Anton Chekhov Almost Debt…