Sliding scale fees are prices that vary depending on how much a customer/client earns, what income bracket they fall into, or how much disposable income they have. It’s technically a form of price discrimination, which is not as passive-aggressive as it may sound, i.e., it is not discriminating against rich…

Conflict is inevitable in the best of times and the easiest of circumstances. Human beings interacting with other human beings are going to run up against misunderstandings, differing needs, and clashing expectations. Now consider that we’re living in a time of incredible disruptions — job losses, evictions, financial insecurity, climate…

“Did you have a specialty?” he smarmed, “I see that you were also a philosophy major.”

Blank stare. I was about to give a deposition, and he was the counsel for the other side.

“Mine was ethics.”

“Oh,” I said. Ew is what I thought.

Cause we weren’t friends, cause…

Cushions for protection, security, well-being, and thriving.

Layers of support.

For self and others.

This is how and where I want to focus my writing for 2022.

Because I have these cushions for myself, and I know firsthand what a life-changing difference it makes to put such layers of protection…

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Common Inheritance/Just Desserts

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Cooperatives

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I have to admit that I arrived in the world with a leg up in the areas of productivity and time management, born into a hard-working family that was organized, knew how to get stuff done (and liked to), kept loafing to a minimum, and more or less focused on…