Correcting Incorrect Thinking, One Think at a Time

Photo Credit: pbglifestyle.com As I have previously divulged, people who don’t know what they are talking about–and assert that they do–aggravates me on a deep, you-are-personally-upsetting-the-Zen-of-the-universe-and-have-a-moral-obligation-to-stop kind of way. So, in my unflapping quest to slowly right the errors of thinking I encounter around me, I offer the best explanation of why we often use […]

First Seek to Understand Me

People tend to experience me as an energetic, thoughtful, affable person.  Everyone has their quirks and flaws, but on the whole, I’m widely considered as likable. Others, though, experience poignant and acute frustration in their interactions with me. To both groups, I offer this plea: Before you think I’m greater or worse than I am, […]

You Never Know What’s Going On…

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kendel the Investor, Step One

     After years of saying, “Yeah, I’ll do that ‘someday,’”, I finally became an investor. I opened a Roth IRA and invested in the stock market (a lifecycle fund, to be more specific). I did my initial research and found the following: Pretty much everyone should get a Roth (and a 401k, but my […]