by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 15, 2010 | for Mind, for Money
“Oh, I'd love to homeschool, but how could I possibly run my home-based business and homeschool, too? I simply won't have the time!” Well, you're right. And you're wrong. In 1995, only six months after jumping into the homeschooling arena, I began my...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 27, 2010 | for Money
A few years ago I created a funny t-shirt for my daughter for Christmas. It wouldn't make sense to explain the inside joke, but it was a big hit. Within the next few months I made more for other kids, my husband, my dad, and later some other relatives. I created a...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 26, 2010 | for Body, for Money
In 1983, when I was in college, my best friend got engaged. Her new fiancé was traveling from California to Utah for a visit the day after Christmas. We were so excited to have a fun winter break from classes, snowmobiling and having fun. But in the middle of Nevada,...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 19, 2010 | for Money
With all the brouhaha over the appropriate role of government in regulating health insurance, it's reasonable that first we should define what insurance, as a commodity, really is. Insurance is a group pooling resources in order to protect individuals within the...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 13, 2010 | for Home, for Money, for Spirit
We've all heard about the state of real estate in these trouble economic times. Foreclosures are everywhere. Yesterday I read that now lots of people who can afford to pay their mortgages are walking away from them—allowing the banks to foreclose—because the values...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 12, 2010 | for Home, for Money
The rebate system for energy-efficient improvements is a baffling array of governmental nonsense. No surprise there. If you do exactly what the EPA tells you to do, when they tell you to do it, while living where they want you to live—and presumably with the...
