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It’s graduation season once again. I know a number of people graduating this year from both college and graduate school. Some have jobs, some don’t. Most are glad to be done with school, though the idea that graduation means that you have to think about being a grown-up is weighing heavily on their minds. I was [...] I asked a friend for a blog post idea, and she suggested I write about funding your child’s college education – do I feel that we “owe” our children an education and is it financially responsible to save for your child’s college costs at the expense of your retirement account. I was blessed to have family [...] A recent article on Slate.com discussed how twenty-somethings are dealing with the recession. I particularly like the title: “The Real World Threw Up All Over Us.” The article does, at times, seem a bit whiny on the part of the twenty-somethings interviewed, but the author is careful to say that the e-mails she received were [...] My sister graduates from college this year. For a while, she’s been planning to finish her business degree and then go back to school for a nursing degree. She decided too late in her college career to easily switch over, and her university doesn’t offer a nursing degree, so it made the most sense finish [...] Growing up, my parents always told me this: “We don’t care what you decide you want to be, but you have to go to college. If you want to herd sheep, well, then you will be a college educated shepherd.” (My standard response was that I wanted to be a ninja. To this day, I still [...] |
 
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