Category Archives: Lifestyle

The Most Important Quality in a Friend

The older you become, the more you realize how hard it is to get a good friend and KEEP that friendship in the coming years. Life is a roller coaster. You’ll have moments when life pulls the rug out from under you. Maybe it’s a breakup, a lost job, or a bad cold. In thoseContinue reading “The Most Important Quality in a Friend”

What If You Could Have Everything: Being Rich During Inflation

What is the price of having it all? Everything costs too much these days. You can look at a grocery bill from three months ago, blink, and those same items will cost you $10 more just three months later. And if you think you’re losing your mind – you’re not. Shrinkflation means the same stuffContinue reading “What If You Could Have Everything: Being Rich During Inflation”

Do You Remember Life Before the Internet?

(How the Internet Changed Everything) I remember the sounds of life before the internet. Before we heard the ding of message notifications or the screeching sounds of amber alerts or weather alerts, we recognized the clunk of the mailbox lid shutting, the rustle of a newspaper unfolding, the beeps as we pressed the number buttonsContinue reading “Do You Remember Life Before the Internet?”

What Things Can’t You Live Without?

What can’t you live without? More specifically, what personal belongings can’t you live without? This question put me in that hypothetical situation where you have ten minutes to grab whatever personal items I value most. Of course, I can’t carry every personal belonging I have, but I did narrow down the list to just aContinue reading “What Things Can’t You Live Without?”

Why I Started Learning New Languages as an Adult

Learning a new language as an adult might seem overwhelming, but I find it’s been a great pastime. I’ve been working with remote companies that hire people from many backgrounds. Many people speak more than one language. So speaking more than one language becomes a way to connect with people (hey, I speak that languageContinue reading “Why I Started Learning New Languages as an Adult”