Archive for June, 2011

Write about juggling your job and your kids

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Starting up a blog is not an easy way to make money by any means, but by doing so it opens up a lot of doors for building up a side income later.  Knowing how to write to convey useful information and sell things to a market will put food ...

Don’t settle for $1 per hour. Please!

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Jacob over at My Personal Finance Journey is in graduate school.  I've been in graduate school, also known as Slave Labor, Class A.  (I opted out of Slave Labor, Class B, also known as a "postdoctoral fellowship.")  Over at the Yakezie Forums when discussing whether or not to e-mail spammers ...

New print books are expensive! Some cheaper alternatives

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

My wife and I were chatting about why she had sold more Amazon Kindle versions than paperback versions of her new Civil War historical fantasy.  Granted, the Kindle version is only 20% the cost of the paperback version, but I had said that $14.99 was a bit much to pay ...

Concerned about where things are headed? Do something

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Peak oil.  Peak water.  Great Depression, Part Deux.  The Rapture.  Justin Bieber. OK, that last one was pretty scary.  Sorry.  But seriously, there are about 24.5 bajillion different bad things that could happen anywhere between 30 seconds from now until the Second Coming.  And every last one of them has enough ...