It’s been kind of quiet here on The Family CEO for the last few months. There are several reasons for that, but one big reason is that I’ve been busy working on a new blog that I want to introduce you to today: Creating This Life. A Little Background I’ve loved writing about family finances […]
On Monday my daughter, Lindsey, and I appeared on a Today Show segment about the cost of college. (Note: the video is no longer available.) Other guests on the panel were Natalie Merola, a student at Florida International University, and Jacques Steinberg of Say Yes to Education. The whole thing came about very quickly and […]
The folks at Coupon Audit have put together an infographic of the Top 100 finance blogs to follow in 2013. And look who showed up at #47: Thanks to Coupon Audit for including me. I see a lot of my blogging friends on this list, along with a bunch of new blogs to check out. […]
Thanks to all of you who answered the one question survey I posted a couple of weeks ago. Since most of my blog posts fall into one of two categories — family finance and home/lifestyle — I wanted to see if it made sense to split those topics into two different blogs. That was not something I […]
Happy September and thank you very much for being a Family CEO reader. If you would take a moment to answer this one question survey, it would help me tremendously in determining how future topics on the blog are organized. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool. If you’re reading […]
Back when I kept paper calendars, I liked to save them. They didn’t take up a lot of room, and it was always fun and interesting to look back and see what we were doing a year ago. Or two. Or five. I liked the “month at a glance” calendars. I started with those little, […]
The Family CEO has a new look! Once again, the wonderful Sharon Hujik listened to me and created just what I wanted: a simpler, cleaner design with fresh colors. (If you’re reading this in an email or in a blog reader, be sure to click over and check it out!) Simple Ideas for Everyday Living […]
Several years ago my boss at the company where I was working had us take a personality test. The company is a small one and all of its employees are all women, so we had a lot of fun with the results. Each of our personality types had a name, like Peacemaker, Innovator, or Idealist. […]
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” – G.K. Chesterton […]
Last week I attended the Financial Blogger Conference in Chicago (or Schaumburg to be more specific). After it was over, I gifted myself an extra day and a half in the Windy City, because I love that place. On Sunday afternoon I hit up IKEA, and then took a Sunday drive down by Wrigley Field […]