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Graduates – Use Summer to Learn How to Avoid College Fail Points

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are going on to college in the fall, don’t let summer roll by without doing some preparation work to help you avoid typical college fail points. Time to find out. Talk to any alumni you may know (hint parents, cousins, that kid that went off to college last year) to see what they know about it.

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Family Office Manager

Family Balance Sheet

I read this book around the same time that I became a mother and left the full-time workforce to stay at home with our new baby. Fast forward 16 years, I am working outside the home at our business and the cute baby in the above picture is now in high school and has a middle school-aged sister.

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

My own kids were born in different time zones, too – one in MN, one in OH. I’m a long-distance cyclist, a triathlete, a wife, a mother of two, a sister, a daughter, a friend, DIY-er, and a community member! They had me, and then my mom decided to go back to school full-time and get a PhD.

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Our sisters are being sold into prostitution and slavery , in America and elsewhere. Forbes reported: ”According to new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012 full-time employed women earned just 80.9% If you went to college, did you see huge marketing efforts directed at female sports team events?

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