Mission Statement
Mission Statement I have been thinking a lot lately about my purpose regarding my online endeavors. As of today, I am engaged in this blog, The What’s Up Next Podcast, and The What’s Up...
Category: Creative Writing
Creation Without Destination
Creation Without Destination Dealing with life after financial independence is an incremental evolution. Transforming habits ever so slowly to create more purpose and identity, and letting go of those that are not mood affirming...
The Declaration of Financial Independence
The Declaration of Financial Independence When in the Course of financial independence, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...
Gifts Given and Gifts Taken Away
Gifts Given and Gifts Taken Away There are gifts given and gifts taken away. And Jacob’s abilities could be described as nothing less than a gift. He was a violin virtuoso. Or at...
The Five Stages of Coping With Financial Independence
The Five Stages of Coping With Financial Independence I stumbled and I bumbled. I staggered and I sputtered. And then I fell down a hole. A dark chasm. With neither sight nor sound, debased...
The Once I Have Syndrome
The Once I Have Syndrome There was once a little boy who looked longingly at the immense, vast world and wondered about all its uncertainty. Like most young children, he wanted nothing more than...
Why Financial Independence is Easier Than Blogging
Why Financial Independence is Easier Than Blogging Ok, I admit it, bloggers tend to be a little self involved. So before you roll you’re eyes at yet another post about the process of blogging,...
What I’ve Learned From Writing A Thousand Blog Posts
A Thousand Blog Posts I searched through my email last night and realized that I have been writing on the internet since 2005. At least, that is the farthest back I can trace. DiverseFi...
Less is More
Less Is More Maron could feel the spittle as it pooled in the recesses of his otherwise barren palate. The drool was intolerable. Hunger was an inviolate preaching of the bloody frugality wars of...
