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Has anyone read any of Jodi Picoult's books? I so rarely read fiction, but I'm tired of non-fiction lately, so I picked Small Great Things at the library, and I really enjoyed it.

Wow! two houses for $210,000?? Holy cow! And they are both adorable!! Crazy! If I weren't so tied to the NE and had no family, I would jump on that. I could get along with Christian Scientists. I...

Very interesting! Thanks for providing it.

Being a SAHM is definitely harder than going out to a job, at least in my experience. I, like you, spent time at home as well as at work during their growing-up years. The hardest job of all was the...

One of our good friends up here is planning on getting a niche for his ashes (and his wife's) at St. Anne's Shrine, which has beautiful grounds on the lake. DH and I briefly considered it. You don't...

So sorry for your situation, TMS. I do think that if a person has an independent nature hard-wired into them, it is very, very hard to allow others to help them. But often people want to help when...

Couldn't DH and I put the house in an irrevocable trust at some point? I do understand that it could get very messy with managing co-ownership. My DIL has a family "camp" (as they call it up here) in...

My mother was a stay-at-home mom except for the relatively short period of time between her first and second marriages. None of my friends' mothers worked outside the home. None. This was in a...

Yes, but this is another fear I have originating from the past... My mother had to sell the beloved cottage where I spent summers with my aunt in order to "clean up" her mother's debt--not that my...

That's DH. In fact he frequently says exactly that: "Who cares?? Money comes and money goes." But this has been a lifelong attitude for him, even with a mother who was so frugal she would wait in a...

In the thread about Ramit Sethi, I relayed how he was working with a family that had a huge net income--45k/month, yet they are still very worried about finances because they are in the technology...

Cool picture, Tybee!

I didn't bother taking pictures because my camera is not very good. But we had wonderful clear skies, and it couldn't have been a better experience--especially because we...

My DD and DSIL and to some extent my DS feel the same way, but I feel that the universe is such a strange and magical entity and perhaps one of the many, many things (I would say "blessings" instead...

Has anyone weighed in on this yet? I'm immersed in it because I am directly in the path of totality. My NJ son is coming up with his family and staying in the camper. We have a nice bit of lawn on...

I thought the story line was very clever, and the character development was great.

Well, a just finished another limited series--Beef. It was great. I just finished it, and I just loved it. Has anyone seen it?

I don't think financial advisor was part of his career path for sure.

Yay, kib!! Great to see you back!

So I guess Jesus was a Good Shepherd but a Bad Botanist.

Yes.

Thanks, happystuff!

So this is one of the advantages if you wind up lucky enough to stay married for a LOOOONG time. DH and I will celebrate our 50th (as long as both of us survive) in 3 years. I don't care what he...

Thanks, rosa and IL..

Tonight I make roasted chicken. DH has been under the weather, and he's the family chef, so before I stuck it in the oven he admonished me to look up Thomas Keller (French...

Oops! I think I was searching for a reference for The Queen's Gambit in an earlier year and then got stuck in this thread.

The rude awakening I had while reading his recent newsletter about the people whose net monthly income is $45k a month is that many of their living expenses were in line with mine! Their mortgage was...