I typed today’s post from my IBM Selectric and then ran down to file it at Western Union, or so it feels. The new computer arrives this week, and it can’t come soon enough. Ding! Cushunk. The breaking news is that apparently, when your computer no longer has any room to install software upgrades, it [...]
Entries from April 19th, 2010
Debt, Redux
April 15th, 2010 2 Comments
I’m dismayed to report that because of taxes, we aren’t going to be paying off big chunks of our credit card debt like we had planned. At least, not as quickly. I made more money than usual last year, so we set aside extra for taxes. (We, here, is really my husband, the brains of [...]
Tags: Credit card · Debt · Taxes
How ‘No’ Can You Go? The Impact of Wealth on Happiness
April 2nd, 2010 5 Comments
Everyone is about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Except it matters very much where your mind happens to live. Several weeks after reading this review and summary of new and old happiness research, I keep coming back to it. Two new policy books the article mentions argue that Gross Domestic [...]
Tags: G.D.P. · happiness · No Impact Man
