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The Baglady
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a 24 year old woman's quest to live in a sustainable manner
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Is Having More Income Equivalent to Having More Debt?
The New York Times recently published an interactive calculator that allows you to compare your debt situation to a group of more than 360 American families that were surveyed in 2004. After playing with it for a little bit, it was pretty clear that ...
Fifteen Years in America - Chapter 5: The Chef of the Student Cafeteria (Part 2)
This is a continuation of my family’s immigration story originally written by my dad in Chinese. For more of my dad’s narrative see the category marked Fifteen Years in America. If you can read Chinese you can read the original at my dad’s Yaho...
Are Our Lives Really That Different?
I have only two cousins because of the only child policy. My older cousin is named Yang and he is three days older than me. Before I left China, we were sort of like twins and played with each other quite often. Last year, he finished his m...
Are Stocks Worse Investments Than Real Estate?
Recently my mom was trying to convince me to buy a house again, and once again I had to tell her that San Mateo is ridiculously expensive and renting costs one half or one third of a mortgage. I have said this about 10000 times already. Yes, the ...
An Absolutely Random Baglady Update
As many of you bloggers already know, this weekend is the BlogHer ‘08 conference in San Francisco. I was planning to attend, but got lazy and missed the registration deadline. Additionally, these couple months have been kind of crazy in term...

