It's only money. Money shouldn't cause emotion.

The last few months of pregnancy, the fading months of 2019, felt like they were sent to remind me what is important in ones’ life story. Would I remember this time for the sweetness of our first Christmas in New Zealand, our first quiet Christmas as a little family alone without the noise and without the extended families, or would I remember the seemingly never-ending barrage of challenges that this Big Deal seemed to throw us? Little did I know - did any of us know - the t

The Big Deal began as a mere curiousity. An agent contact in Whanganui approached me quietly about a motel for sale in Whanganui East in early September. The Vendors apparently refused to pay any advertising fees and so the sale was word of mouth only. I had been aware of a motel deal Ellie and Charles were investigating about six months earlier but were unable to come to an agreement with the vendor on value and passed it over. I was professionally curious as a result of the

Yesterday I discovered that I have unconsciously embedded upper limits on the amount of wealth that I can tolerate. The consciousness descended on me as I drove, like a confusing mist punctuated with brilliant momentary rays of sunshine clarity that vanished nearly as immediately as they appeared. The mist settled inside me, initially with an uneasiness coupled with rising emotion and as the words rolled through the car speakers I found myself wanting to cry for a reason I co