China travel is out this year, but you can still prepare
Maybe you’re dreaming of your vacation to the ancient cities of China. The bad news is that travel restrictions make it unlikely to arrange this year, but…
Category: Personal Development
With this credit score, I thee wed
When you get married, you agree to share your lives — and your financial future. Marriage can be a good financial decision that brings you higher net…
Planning a summer vacation? What countries are open for travel?
If you’ve got a serious case of cabin fever, you’re not alone. March marks a full year since anyone in the U.S. could travel without concern over…
How to say no
An old adage says that the most successful people aren’t those who say yes most often, but those who say no. It makes sense:, No’ is a means of…
Get these words right — the spell checker won’t catch them
Their: (possessive pronoun) — It implies ownership: Their cat, their house. There: (adverb) — The opposite of here: Somewhere else. Over there. They’re:…
Does spelling still matter?
Family members wishing to tease their spelling-challenged brethren can always bank on finding a magnet or other trinket with the tongue-in-cheek phrase,…
Never touch a Knight’s beard
In medieval Europe, if you touched a knight’s beard, you were going to have to face him in duel at dawn. His beard was his honor, according to the Chicago…
Leave the sweet for your sweetie
It has become a bit of a stereotype all by itself: The guy with the big personality or the older lady who mothers everyone. Somewhere along the line they…
Lean into discomfort to embrace personal growth
It’s a natural human impulse, if something causes discomfort, we avoid it, and if we can’t avoid it, we seek to resolve it. When we squabbled with our…
Time to learn a second language? Bienvenido! Language apps await
Let’s be honest. Despite what online language apps tell you, a year of online learning won’t qualify you as fluent in a language. But here is the good…