I have a sweet friend who got hitched two weeks ago in a charming and romantic old farmhouse and barn just outside Leiper’s Fork, TN. Leiper’s Fork is a rural village located about an hour south of Nashville along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which always is a lovely drive, especially in the fall. It was […]
Before I began my financial transformation, I was regularly living above my means. This manifested itself in several ways including pricey vacations, sky-high restaurant bills, and fancy new furniture. The most financially devastating, however, was my designer clothing habit. I thought very little of dropping $300 on a new handbag or splurging on a new […]
When I shared with my sister that I was beginning a mindfulness and meditation class through work, I could practically hear an eye-roll groan through her text response of “…really?” In fairness, she works for a Bay Area based psychology book publishing company and has hear the word “mindfulness” tossed around in meetings more times […]
Fall has quietly sailed into Nashville, unloading crisp cooler nights, and reminding us that winter is on the horizon. For now, I’d rather enjoy the smell of campfires and pie spices, the sounds of crispy leaves beneath my boots on the neighborhood sidewalks, and the transition back to hot coffee mornings. Mmmmm, fall. This quarter’s […]
I had forgotten how much of a sensory overload the French Quarter can be. Everything about New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood screams excess – colorful walls punctuated with ornately decorated ironwork balconies, orders of fluffy beignets with heaping piles of powdered sugar, the ability to drink in the streets, massive po’ boy sandwiches overflowing with fried […]
I thought that my sister was insane when she left college at eighteen to follow some dude in a band to New Orleans. My sense of adventure and travel experience was underdeveloped at twenty years old, so it was hard for me to understand the appeal of the dirty cajun city, especially after Hurricane Katrina […]
Despite the unsteady job market, there are a variety of reasons why people decide they want to take the plunge into a career change. For me, the decision was simple – I was barreling down an unsustainable path with a burning desire to explore other opportunities. Many colleagues, friends, and family members were shocked to […]
I’ve been exposed to income inequality for as far back as I can remember. I grew up in a small historic town that had only been a desirable place to live since the 1980s. Prior to that, the center of this once prosperous shipbuilding town had fallen into disrepair. During the 1950s and 1960s, the […]
