It's funny to book a round-trip ticket to home.

I'm home, temporarily, then going back...home. Back to the place where I've spent the last three months and will spend the next couple. What is home, anyway?

But for now, I'm on vacation (sort of) at home (sort of). And like travel often does, it's bringing up different thoughts, feelings, and experiences than the ones I've been having. Out of my daily life, I'm seeing things from a new perspective.

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I'm trying so hard to keep up, which is probably why things keep going wrong.

I worked all day on Sunday, but I didn't think to send a certain email that I really should have sent.

I got rear-ended on my way to work on Monday. This technically wasn't my fault, but I know better than to be on the road during the busiest time of the morning. I left at 7:30 when I should really be up and out by six. I had too many things to do.

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It's always funny to hear personal finance experts try to avoid using the word budget.

"It's a spending plan!" As if a budget isn't a spending plan.

We humans are easy to fool, and we like being fooled. It's worth it if we get the results we're looking for with respect to what we're trying to accomplish.

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The other day, while on the phone with one of my close associates, I beheaded every dandelion in my yard.

My lawn, inherited from the couple who lived here for 60 years before my husband and I purchased the home from their estate, is a classic New England weed lawn. There’s some grass in there, but it’s mostly clover, crabgrass, wild violets, and other stuff that was all over my grandmother’s lawn but I don’t know the name of.

I don’t really care that much about the dandelions, but it will be an interesting experiment. How long will it take for the dandelion blooms to proliferate once again?

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I don’t know if Savage Steve Holland’s Better Off Dead, starring a teenage John Cusack, qualifies as a cult classic, but it’s one of my favorite ‘80s movies.

In one memorable scene (featuring the late, great Vincent Schiavelli as the geometry teacher), Lane Meyer, played by Cusack, experiences that nightmare scenario of being unwittingly unprepared for class.

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