My morning routine begins with an apple and a dose of humanity. Since I was thirteen years old, I hadn’t touched an apple due to an allergy. It took me over ten years to figure out the problem was in the skin. Now, I walk to the kitchen every morning bleary eyed and take a […]

I am dismayed by debts I can’t erase on a daily basis, to the point where I wish for a magic wand to wave and make them all go away. Clients come to me bearing collection letters in their outstretched palms. I take them and read the fine print searching for loopholes – I know […]

Before recommending products to clients, I sometimes like to try them myself. Everyone in the world of personal finance knows credit is hugely important. Employment, housing, insurance, and even cell phone plans use credit scores to decide what you get and how much it costs you. So, when my organization decided to connect our affordable […]

Jan 2019 – My office floor is quiet as I put down my steaming tea and open the filing cabinet. I withdraw a folder labeled Mr. C and blow scraps of dust from the cover. Plopping it on my desk, I opened it like a fragile artifact and read the first note: Ten Student Loans… […]

We’re sitting on the ground level, next to tall glass windows, but to her, we might as well be on the 26th floor of a skyscraper. She’s wearing bright colors, emblematic of her good mood from when she arrived. Now, however, her expression drops, her eyes dart back and forth, and I can tell she’s […]

You already track how much money you use – so up your game by studying your holiday habits. It’s Black Friday season and everyone is super aware of their purchases. We’re buying presents and feeling the pain in our wallets; we’re going to see family as tickets and gas prices rack up. And although these […]

Working in finance is incidental to my career. It just so happens I speak three languages: English, Spanish, and money. I get excited when I tell stories in these vernaculars. I use them to interest people in the things they otherwise wouldn’t see. I bring meaning out of numbers.

It was 28 degrees when he rolled the window down. “This is the first time I’ve been in a car with the window down in nine years.” We sat in my pickup, humming along route 90. Patchy snow whizzed past our periphery. The trees were without leaves and the sky was a brittle blue. We […]