By the end of 2006, I shut down my Planning Coach financial planning ambitions, such as they were, and slowly decided on a new direction. I shifted my sights to working for a non-profit, one that was in an interesting field and that would be flexible enough to still allow me to drop off and …
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Allie returned from Australia on July 12. We were delighted to have her back and hear all the stories of her travels. But no rest for the weary! On August 11, the three of us headed off on a vacation in Italy, starting with a one-day layover in London. See details in a separate post …
Our summer 2007 journey to Italy, with a one-day stopover in London. One month after Allie returned from her People To People trip to Australia, we turned around for a family vacation in Europe. It was time to introduce Allie to Italy. I thought about different itineraries but settled on very basic highlights of Venice, …
Allie’s 2007 People To People trip to Australia. In the fall of 2006, we learned about the People To People Student Ambassador program, possibly as an outgrowth of Allie’s involvement in the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer programs that Allie had done in previous years. Allie was invited to participate in People To …
Allie was in 6th grade, middle school at GCS. We gave the first of what proved to be a short-lived tradition of inviting friends and neighbors to a post-New Year’s open house. It was a nice idea: it forced us to clean up the house, it was a good chance to meet our expanding list …
Part 3 of my financial education, covering 2004 – 2020. In early 2004, I decided to change course and shift most of my investments into low-fee index funds and exchange traded funds that followed the S&P 500 or other more specific indexes. Over the course of the year, I skinnied my portfolio down from 47 …
Here is a collection of our holiday letters over the years, for those keeping track. Some years are missing, either because we didn’t do a letter or I don’t have an electronic copy. Some Memories of 2024 Some Memories of 2023 Some Memories of 2022 Some Memories of 2021 Some Memories of 2020 Some Memories …