Check out these new-to-me sites that I’ve been enjoying recently:
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At the Wall Street Journal, a very active blog run by Mary Pilon, The Wallet, has been chugging along since September. She has a lot of useful and sometimes fun information, and also the occasional thoughtful piece—see, for example, this article on voting and your job.
In the “Now for Something Altogether Different” Department, I have been attracted by this charming online sketch journal, done by an artist and writer in Australia. She and her husband own a horse ranch, and their adventures, revealed in more detail at a second blog, make for stories, photography, and artwork that provide some fascinatingly exotic moments for us Yankee city girls.
I don’t think I’ve mentioned Small Notebook, discovered on a Make It from Scratch carnival. This author, who is on a quest to simplify her family’s life, offers many frugal and clever ideas, also with great charm. I may have highlightedModern Beet somewhere along the line; if so, it’s worth another mention. The thing blows me away every time I visit.
Room Farm is very nice; I like it because the proprietor shares many of my own concerns about the interrelation between money and stress. I also enjoy Simply Forties very much: the story of a youngish (from my point of view, anyway) woman living in a Texas country town.
In Utah, problogger Miranda holds forth on a just-for-her site, This Time It’s Personal, with some interesting reflections on a wide variety of topics. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Mrs. Accountability’s Out of Debt Again: take a look at the beautiful garden produce she’s brought forth on her rural property.
Not all of these are strictly personal finance sites, although most touch on the subject now and again. Interesting…I seem to be drawn to women writers who live in the boondocks. Does this have meaning? Do I or do I not dream of retiring to Yarnell?
Hey, thanks for the link and thanks for the thoughtful selection of other inspiring websites. You know you do, you harbor a secret desire to hang out in the country, feeding some chickens and watching the dragonflies play….now, come on, the first step is to admit your powerlessness over the dream of a barn. Just kidding, a little silly after way too much work.
Thank you so much for the mention. I appreciate it! Thanks also for pointing me to some new reading. I’m sure I have chicken raising on my horizon!
Hey! I sure wish I could get better at discovering when folks are linking to me. Thank you for the nice compliment, Funny! I’m getting ready to order my tomato and eggplant seeds to start indoors and plant outside in February and March. Thanks for the mention!