23 December 2024

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Category: Grace

  • When Can I Retire?

    When Can I Retire?

    This week, I accidentally found out that Mario is 41 years old. I guess that’s what the decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head does to someone – it ages them. This type of behavior naturally takes its toll… Who’s going to tell him it’s spinal-fusion time? Arguably…

  • “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation”

    “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation”

    Shalom again! Since we last spoke, there’s only been two substantial updates to my life. One is that I finally watched Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (I know, late to the party) and I can’t stop thinking about how the film described the latter half of his life as being like a bird with no place to…

  • Instagram sucks and why that matters

    Instagram sucks and why that matters

    It is news to nobody that Instagram is a cesspool of mainly horrible things. And at the top of that horrible-things list is the royal family of Instagram itself: The Kardashians. Not that you need photo evidence of their avarice, but this shockingly tone-deaf post from Kylie Jenner flaunting her and Travis Scott’s matching private…

  • How Do Rising Interest Rates Affect You?

    How Do Rising Interest Rates Affect You?

    Shalom, my darlings. Since we last spoke, I’ve been extremely preoccupied changing my entire personality after spending exactly one month in Europe. I now wear a necklace engraved with my Hebrew name, begin my newsletters with “Shalom, my darlings”, and not-at-all casually begin every other sentence with “Oh, well when I was in Israel…” (strong…

  • How To Start Investing: A Guide for Cool Girls Only.

    How To Start Investing: A Guide for Cool Girls Only.

    I am not writing this in real time. I wrote this a month ago, before I took a hiatus to Israel and Greece and hopefully, I have now “found myself” or something of the sort. Regardless, writing this far in advance is a sure-fire way for me to hate everything I have written. (I am…

  • PSA: It is Actually Not Okay to Not be Okay

    PSA: It is Actually Not Okay to Not be Okay

    My mother tells me that “it is okay to not be okay”. This sort of thing comforts me for a moment until I realize that this quirky little phrase can only derive from one place: there are people out there saying and behaving like it is not okay to not be okay. Or (another realization),…

  • Time Value: Of Money and Of Self

    Time Value: Of Money and Of Self

    Last week was my birthday. And as they say, “you can cry if you want to”. (Which I usually do. It is my perpetual issue with the notion of time – probably an anxiety that I should save for my therapist, but here we are, Substack will have to suffice). Time has always been a…

  • Crypto Lingo: The Complete Beginners Guide

    Crypto Lingo: The Complete Beginners Guide

    There are certain things in this life that I have accepted I will never understand. First things first, does anyone honestly know what “cookies” are? (The computer kind, obviously, the bakery version is self-explanatory – and far superior). For the last 10 years of my existence, whether browsing a suspect or credible website, I have…

  • The $BECKY Portfolio: It Pays to be Basic.

    The $BECKY Portfolio: It Pays to be Basic.

    As a white woman it is basically sacrilegious to have not yet talked to you about Becky. Growing up in Westside Vancouver, I was inundated with Becky moms and young, bouncy Becky’s to-be. Before I go into it, I must clarify that a Becky should not be confused with a Karen. They are similar in…

  • How to Buy Cryptocurrency. (In Canada). (Eh).

    How to Buy Cryptocurrency. (In Canada). (Eh).

    There are two words in the English language that you will never hear me say consecutively: can’t complain. Can’t complain! Who on this earth literally can’t complain?! What possible concoction of drugs are you taking to live in such a euphoric bliss that you can’t complain? Follow up question, can I have some? (I’ll pay). In this…