Category Archives: Life

See you next year….until then: The Origin of Life, Life on Other Worlds, Mechanical Graveyards, Great Art, Alternative Lifestyles and Finding Freedom

By jlcollinsnh | Published: December 20, 2012

Well, gee.  It’s been almost a month since my return from Ecuador.  No wonder I’m restless.  Fortunately, we have our daughter to visit in France.  She’s there for her junior year at University.   I told her when she left, “Don’t plan on coming home.  We’ll come to you.”  And a promise (threat?) is a [...]

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How I learned to stop worrying about the Fiscal Cliff and you can too.

By jlcollinsnh | Published: December 5, 2012

You can’t turn on the TV or radio or pick up a newspaper these days without being confronted with scary talk about the Fiscal Cliff and the doom that awaits us should we hurdle over it into the abyss. This is (mostly) a financial blog.  I intentionally avoid politics, primarily because that subject turns so [...]

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Rent v. owning: A couple of case studies in Ecuador

By jlcollinsnh | Published: November 30, 2012

If you’ve been reading the last few posts focused on my recent trip to Ecuador, you know one of my objectives was to take a look at property for sale both in Cuenca and in and around Bahia on the coast.  I like looking at property, it is an excellent way to get a feel [...]

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So, what does a month in Ecuador cost anyway?

By jlcollinsnh | Published: November 25, 2012

$3636.35 That title question was posed by a blog reader and, since I obsessively track expenses anyway and my guess is if you’re a reader of jlcollinsnh you’d be curious, it suggested a fun and easy post topic.  Since I was actually there only 27 days, that’s $134.83 per day.  But you could do it [...]

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See you in December….

By jlcollinsnh | Published: October 21, 2012

View of the Valley from the Retreat As you gathered from the last post, I’m off to Ecuador until December.  When I get back you can look for posts on Deflation, Target Date Funds, Withdrawal Rates, running the rent v own numbers on some of the property I will have checked out in Ecuador and [...]

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The Podcast: You can hear me now.

By jlcollinsnh | Published: October 5, 2012

A few weeks back a guy calling himself The Mad Fientist showed up in the comments section here on jlcollinsnh.  He started by linking back to my post.  As if the name alone wasn’t enough, that got me poking around, and enjoying, his site. One of the cool things he does is podcast conversations with other [...]

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Putting the Simple Path to Wealth into Action

By jlcollinsnh | Published: September 17, 2012

This blog launched in the Spring of 2011. Post #4 was  Why you need F-you money. Post #6 presented The Simple Path to Wealth to get you there and Post #9, What we own and why we own it, told you how we keep ours.  Almost everything else on the subject of money has been an elaboration [...]

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Tales of Bolivia: Calle de las Brujas

By jlcollinsnh | Published: September 11, 2012

Charming Sitting on my desk as I type is a small glass vial.  It is sealed with a metal cap and is filled with a clear liquid I presume to be water.  What appears to be a small gold chain runs around the bottom.   Filling the vial are tightly packed objects, perhaps bits of cloth, [...]

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Home again

By jlcollinsnh | Published: August 28, 2012

New Hampshire – Home A couple of weeks ago we made it home from South America. It was the best of times.  It was the worst of times.  With apologies to Mr. Dickens. While I’ve been meaning to resume posting here it always seems to take me a while to re-engage.  Writing is hard work [...]

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I could not have said it better myself…

By jlcollinsnh | Published: June 12, 2012

“If you reach for a star, you might not get one.  But you won’t come up with a hand full of mud either” – Leo Burnett “Never be haughty to the humble.  Never be humble to the haughty.” – Jefferson Davis “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:  the unreasonable one persists in trying [...]

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