I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost, The Road not Taken The above passage is from one of the most beloved, and unfortunately […]

If you’ve been a regular reader you might have noticed that the output from the grizzlies has dropped off over the last few weeks. I’ve been lucky to get one post up a week, and Grizzly Mom has disappeared entirely. You might have thought that maybe we returned to the woods to live out our bearish […]

A couple of weeks ago, an RV carrying a large cargo of model rockets burst into flames during my evening commute, causing traffic to grind to a halt during rush hour.  Fortunately, no one was hurt; emergency personnel managed to save the driver of the RV before the fire completely engulfed the vehicle, and police […]

So much of what we read on the subject of investing and financial independence is about money. How to get more of it, how to keep it growing, how to avoid losing it, how to optimize every decision and growth hack every side hustle so you end up with the biggest pot of it at […]

Hi everyone!  Grizzly mom here, finally showing up after emerging from a painful three weeks locked in a conference room with other disgruntled attorneys.  I will spare you the (pretty boring) details of the trial, but suffice to say that it involved many sleepless nights, dozens of cans of sugar-free Red Bull (gross but effective), and […]

Weird title for a post on a finance blog about financial independence. I thought this entire thing was about how we should all accumulate a massive pile of money so we can never worry about anything ever again. Go happily off into the sunset leaving concerns behind us forever. Wrong. But wrong in a nuanced […]

We have a few goals here – the first is to leave our corporate jobs and show you a path to that goal as well. The second is more complicated but more important: to be the best parents that we can be. That part we’re still figuring out. My daughter came into this world on March 22, […]

Money can be a complex and daunting topic. But our goals here are simple. Difficult, but simple. Our first is the most basic. Achieve financial independence by the time our daughter turns 3. She was born in 2015, which means our target date is a little under 2 years from now. That’s goal number 1: Achieve […]