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8 Reasons to Pursue Early Retirement

8 Reasons to Pursue Early Retirement

Early retirement is a loaded phrase that ignites internet skepticism.  We can partly blame the mainstream financial media for picking up stories about “early retirees” that run six and seven-figure businesses.  Inconsistent messaging among early retirement bloggers doesn’t help, and I suspect the phrase is tossed around liberally on YouTube and TikTok. The FIRE crowd…

Cream and Sugar First

Cream and Sugar First

A former colleague once told me that if I ever started drinking coffee, I’d never stop. Frida drank ten cups a day. She was an administrative assistant in the media department at my university.  I worked in the darkroom developing film and printing black and white photographs for various campus publications.  The coffee maker was…

The Retire Before Dad Story

The Retire Before Dad Story

At age 27, I was broke, unemployed, and living at home with my parents. Not surprisingly, I was single too. Sounds depressing, right? Not so. I had recently returned from an epic 14-month backpacking trip to Asia and Latin America, spending just $10,000 on the entire journey, then completed a three-month, 8,000-mile road trip throughout the U.S and…