Debt Reduction 101

I’ve been blessed when it comes to the people that I consider mentors in my life – partly because of the number of people that I’ve looked up to and have been blessed by their knowledge and partly because I am still in contact with most of them.
Mentoring started with my sixth-grade teacher Mr. Lonning. [...]

I’ve really been enjoying Katy Wolk-Stanley’s blog “The Non-Consumer Advocate’s Blog.” I especially appreciate her motto: “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” Her musings find their way into my inbox on a daily basis and her writing style is perfectly fit for my busy life – short, [...]

I grew up on a farm in rural Iowa and one of my favorite memories from childhood is the scent and the feel of stuff that was hung out on the clothesline that my grandpa had sunk into a pool of concrete about 40 some years ago. I don’t know that my mom was [...]

I like to think that I am a patient person. I used to work as a reporter for a cops and courts beat and I used to tell people that my career and life was spent waiting in the lobbies of courthouses or at the cop shop waiting for some ranking officer to come [...]

I have one coworker of mine who is ridiculous about sending me email forwards, but every once in awhile she’ll send me one that’s pretty good. Here’s today’s offering:
Written By Regina Brett of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio who writes “My odometer rolled over in August, so here is the column once [...]

On my way to work, I saw the ubiquitous summer garage sale signs, but I saw an advertisement that I had never seen before. Instead of a “garage sale” I saw an arrow pointing toward a “man sale” and the items involved included hunting, fishing and sporting goods. I thought that was a [...]

I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed when I was living in Willmar. That was probably about five years ago and all that I really remember from the experience was watching the “Scarlett” made-for-TV miniseries (a crappy continuation of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind”), eating lots of mashed potatoes and going out with [...]

I think that everyone needs a friend who is a lawyer. Maybe you don’t talk to this person on a regular basis or they come over on Tuesday nights to play poker. A lawyer friend is just a nice asset – I’ve used my lawyer friend in Northfield on a couple of occasions [...]