It’s not too often that I get to travel overseas to visit my parents, but this time I had to. My dad’s job is taking him on a new foreign assignment to another continent, one that might be less accessible, so I decided to make the effort to visit them sooner than later.
Ever since I [...]
As I grumbled a bit in an earlier personal finance blog post, I’m suffering from a bit of a bout of blogger’s block recently. What started out as a torrent of gun-ho, blog posting eager beavery has dwindled to a couch potato-ry display of procrastination and summer slumpery (yes I know, I’m making up words [...]
The past few weeks have been tough on me as an aspiring full time blogger. After almost a full year of nearly regular blog posts and after months of practicing fairly consistent writing habits, I’ve finally been smitten with the ailment that inevitably afflicts all bloggers and online entrepreneurs at some point or another - [...]
Ask yourself this question - when was the last time you balanced your checkbook? Do you even know what balancing a� checkbook entails? The fact of the matter is, writing checks and issuing payments in the form of paper checks is a steadily dying practice, thanks to the tremendous growth of the Internet and all [...]
We live in an extremely politically correct country these days, which means anyone who even mentions anything negative about someone different (like negatively pointing out a foreign accent), or criticizes someone for their inability to speak the language properly, he or she is immediately labeled as prejudiced, racist, or somehow inciting hateful views. I’m truly [...]