by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 23, 2010 | for Home
Building a custom home is not for the faint of heart. Seriously. I've decided that building is like having a baby. It's extremely long and painful, but once you're done you forget the pain — just long enough to decide that you'd like to do it again. And when you...
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 | Jun 7, 2010 | for Home
Affordable housing is so important in this economy. Giving your family a place to live is one of the most crucial expenditures — and also one of the biggest drains on family finances. This afternoon I found that good friends of ours are looking at a foreclosed home...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
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 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...