I thought this was interesting: Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a wide range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty by stating that “science fiction is what we point to when we say it”.[3] Vladimir Nabokov argued that were we rigorous with our definitions, Shakespeare’s [...]

So I’ve been reading Barbara Stanny’s book Overcoming Underearning. It’s pretty good…one of the exercises in it is to write down increasing levels of income and note how they make you feel. I’ve been having the grand plan to make 6-figures for a while now, but have been doing all sorts of things to sabotage [...]

I was looking at a few money managing programs, like mint and quicken. I was already using QuickBooks to help manage my biz finances, but then my computer crashed and I lost all my data. Instead of re-installing the software (it’s QuickBooks 2001, very old) I decided to try the new version of Microsoft Money [...]

I just read this book: Overcoming Underearning by Barbara Stanny. In it she talks about how women tend to undervalue their work and thus become underearners. And have other major money issues. One of my goals this year was/is to tackle my money issues; this is part of the reason I’m going back into counseling. [...]