The average individual credit card debt in this country is roughly $9,000. The average rebate check that the economic stimulus package will send out to individuals (around May) will be in the hundreds. Pundits speak with straight faces on how unfortunate it will be if people save their rebate checks or use them to pay [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Buy More Junk; Keep Your Debt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Consumerism on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Lesson in Confidence from an Autistic Teenager
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Confidence on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I watched a documentary last week about a severely autistic boy taken care of by two friends of mine. Matty is 15 and appears completely normal, but he can’t talk and has only recently begun to learn basic sign language.
I first grappled with the thought of not being able to articulate one’s self or to [...]
