What Would You Do With A Million Dollars?

  When we moved from Oklahoma to Arizona I drove the Subaru, Sheila, and Greg drove the Tundra, who he named Percolator? Harvey Judgerson? I can’t remember. The point is, I had a lot of hours to listen to financial podcasts and think about money in the solitary comfort of my own vehicle. How much […]

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Investing in Layman’s Terms

  If you are well-versed in personal finance, this post is not for you I wrote this as a catch-all for the people I work with everyday who have no idea what it means (and especially how) to invest. There are obviously many more retirement and other investment accounts out there, but the following are […]

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Our Investment Strategy

  Spoiler alert! Our investment strategy is super boring, and anything I know about investing I’ve taught myself through numerous books, blogs, and podcasts. And you can too! Since getting married in 2013, thanks to quitting a job I detested, traveling, and travel nursing, I’ve worked a total of 39 months. That averages out to […]

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Warcken Hard and Hardly Workin’

  “How are you going to live?” “Where will you go?” “What will you eat?” “How will you make money?” In 2015 Gregory and I took a bit of time off work. We sold or gave away most of our furniture, appliances, clothes, dishes, toiletries, and a third vehicle. We kept five pieces of sentimental […]

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I Submitted My Resignation

I have a terrible habit of tolerating tolerating tolerating something until I can’t handle it anymore, then I explode. I’ve exploded on nursing. I’ve been burned out on patient care for so long I don’t know if I’ll ever go back, and no part of me has any desire to do bedside nursing again. AM […]

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