The first Cashville Skyline post was carefully written while freezing beneath a blanket on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve. It was hard to imagine where this blog would be in month, let alone a quarter. And here we are together, friends, experiencing my very first quarterly net worth overshare! The choice to share (or […]
Have you heard about Laurie Pickard? She’s a 32-year-old woman working in international rural development and living in Kigali, Rwanda with her husband, a foreign service officer with the US Agency for International Development, for the next few years. If you’re like me (and thousands of others), you learned about Laurie when an article titled […]
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. With the explosion of social media over the past decade, we’re constantly being shown carefully curated milestones from our family, friends, and acquaintances. It’s completely normal to compare ourselves to others. Especially when it comes to money. It’s one of the reasons my quarterly Net Worth Overshares have been […]
“Secure your own mask before assisting others.” – Common Pre-Flight Instruction Remember that scene from “Up in the Air” when George Clooney’s character is schooling Anna Kendrick’s character on the art of moving quickly and efficiently through airport security? He warns her to steer clear of families with small children (never seen a stroller collapse […]
Top of the Hub, Boston circa 2010. This weekend I made a super quick (and gluttonous) trip to my coastal hometown in Massachusetts, just north of Boston. I enjoyed fresh seafood, early birthday cake, buckets of gnocchi, and visiting with family and friends. It was a 48 hour trip that now feels almost dream-like as […]
How’s the first week of March treated you? Brb, going to get some chocolate ice cream. It’s been proven that chocolate ice cream helps lubricate the creative writing process. Especially someone else’s chocolate ice cream. In Monday’s February Recap post, I mentioned that I had failed epically on my health goals (cooking my lunches and […]
Our actual mid-summer CSA 1/4 bushel of produce + meat share + eggs share circa 2012. Peaches, tomatoes, and dill, oh my! Even with all the winter weather we’ve been incessantly pummeled with, it’s hard not to start thinking about spring. Despite the occasional tornado warning and incredibly high pollen count, springtime is one of […]
via mimimotives.com It’s hard not to be inspired by a blog like Little Digs, a site dedicated to living in spaces 500 square feet or smaller. This month, they featured a story about Macy Miller, an architect living in Idaho who spent two years building her beautiful 196 square foot home for only $11,000. She’s […]
