This is a guest post from Sarah Gilbert. My husband and I both grew up in large families, and both of them were poor throughout our childhoods; my parents for beliefs (my dad was a Baptist missionary and a part-time minister for many years) and his because of a fractured family and substance abuse. In […]
This is a guest post from Sarah Gilbert. The story of one mortgage I got my mortgage statement in the mail a few weeks ago. I bought my Portland, Oregon home 10 years ago on a busy street in an up-and-coming neighborhood with what I thought was a super-low interest rate: 5.25%. It was a […]
This is a guest post from Sarah Gilbert. Every once in a while, I’ll get swept up in the idea of a job. A friend will post something on Facebook or e-mail me a job description or I’ll just come across it, in the way we do these days — on the internet, it’s sure […]
This is a guest post from Sarah Gilbert. We’ll call my friend’s daughter “Sophie.” She’s 12, and like many of today’s families there is no land line phone at home. Because she was getting home from school first, her parents gave her a cell phone, with lots of restrictions: keep it at home, first, and […]