Category: $ Money
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Watching the Michael Jackson Movie Made Me Realize Again How Extraordinary He Was
This was a little while ago, but in mid-June, around the time the movie was released in Japan, I finally watched the Michael Jackson film. It had already opened in the United States at the end of April. A friend of mine saw it in the theater and told me, “It was so good. You…
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Making Homemade Miso: A Tradition I’ve Enjoyed for Seven Years
Today, I made another batch of homemade miso. I’ve been making miso for about seven years now. A friend in my neighborhood first showed me how, and it has become one of my favorite annual traditions. One of the things I love most about homemade miso is its simplicity. You only need three ingredients: Soybeans…
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Watching Coachella While Thinking About the State of the World
It’s already been four months since we entered 2026, and the world seems to be moving in a more and more uneasy direction. From what I personally feel, gas prices have become the “new normal” at around $5 per gallon, and sometimes even creeping into the $6 range. There are constant headlines like “attacks on…
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Ruthless America: How Much Do You Actually Need to Retire?
Recently, I clicked on an article at work titled something like “How much do you need to retire comfortably?”And ever since that one click, my algorithm has completely locked onto the topic.Now my feed is full of retirement articles popping up one after another, like mushrooms after the rain. As I kept reading, I saw…