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In Defense of The Way We Live
I think we sometimes don’t use our cities (or towns, or environments, even) enough. But here it is: when you’re utterly broke, suddenly, as shop doors shut fast in your face, something else opens...
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The Horrible Truth About Money & Me: More on the Relative Poverty of Youth
I think it’s time for me to come clean about something–and I may as well do it publicly, because as many times as I tell myself in private, it never quite seems to sink in. Here it is: I’m shit with...
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Strapped for Cash
If I wasn’t already consumed every moment by anxiety, I would be by now. Even The Guardian had a “Crisis Special!” in its Money section. When The Man’s parents dropped by yesterday evening for tea,...
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Bruises and Bills and Boot-Heels, Oh My
This week has probably not been one of the finest of my entire existence. I promise this won’t be one of those whiny “everything’s gone to shit” posts, but I fell down the stairs at work yesterday....
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The Actual Poverty of Youth
Is it better or worse to be young in a depression? It seems unfair. Here we are in the golden time, all bright-eyed, muscled, sharp of mind and full of ambition, stymied (they say) by a nonexistent...
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The Actual Poverty of Youth Part II
Just as I was finishing up yesterday’s post, the Man came upstairs into the study and said, “I want to read you something that will make you feel much better about our finances.” He then sat down on...
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Post Return To Work Stress Disorder
I’ve been back at work for three hours. I think that’s enough, really, don’t you? It’s such a rude re-introduction to the real world. Hulking black PCs, lists and lists of menial tasks. I can’t see...
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Zombie Comedy
I woke up on Saturday, and I was depressed. A friend of mine recently posted a quote on her blog from Breakfast at Tiffany’s:”The blues are because you’re getting fat or because it’s been raining too...
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A Creative Living (Version 2.0): The Man (hat on) Tour
I’m about to be a part of something really cool. Next month, I’m going to New York with Xander and Ben for a sort of tour 2.0-type thing. We’re calling it Man (hat on). There’s even a logo (and the...
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(Belated) Sunday Rant: Banks
So, banks. We all use them, right? I guess some people don’t. Some people probably don’t trust banks, and keep their cash in neat little stacks under the mattress (doesn’t that get uncomfortable?), but...
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