Category: Finances

The illusion of debt

September 13, 2008 | 14 comments

While studying the story of the widow woman and her pot of oil in the Christian Science Bible lesson this week, a new insight into the unreality of debt grabbed my attention. In the story, a woman’s husband dies leaving

Be content with what you have

August 22, 2008 | 4 comments

One of our early stops was at the Gruyere castle and neighboring town. Have you ever heard of Gruyere cheese? The Gruyere family ruled over a beautiful lush valley and surrounding area for 500 years, building a family fortune, castle,

Does money make you happy?

July 1, 2008 | 2 comments

Now here’s a new angle on what makes us happy that I hadn’t read before. An opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled, “Does money make you happy?” by Arthur Brooks, claims that feeling successful is more closely related

Retirement revised

February 7, 2008 | 1 comment

I read an article titled, “No time to retire,” in the Washington Post National Weekly last week that stated, “Millions of boomers are headed not for endless vacation but for a new stage of work, driven both by the desire

What if no such thing as debt?

June 15, 2007 | No comments yet

Too much debt is a common complaint of many callers these days. It’s ironic that in a time when the economy is supposed to be strong, with full-employment throughout most of the country, the USA anyway, millions of people sink