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Teaching Our Kids About Earning And Saving Money

I've resolved to change that. 

For the longest time I've wanted to get back to blogging, but I've been putting it off. Probably because this time, it's not to make money, or forward my professional career, or show that I might know something valuable about a particular topic...it's simply to quiet an insatiable need to write. 

I go back and forth about whether I'm a good writer or not. It's a constant inner struggle. But struggle or not, all I know is this: if an inexplicable force frequently arrives, quiet and unannounced, at a door inside your mind only you know about—and speaks words that compel you to immediately drop everything you're doing, no matter what you're doing, and write them down for fear you'll lose them forever—well, then, I'd say that means you're a goddamned writer. 

And who am I to deny that, or demean it because I'm afraid it isn't productive, or doesn't serve anyone, or just...sucks? Let the adjective before the noun change as many times as it damn well pleases—just so long as that noun is "writer." That’s what really matters to me. 

If one of my children told me all of this, I'd say, what the hell are you waiting for? Who really cares if it sucks? Just start writing!