by Amy Phillips | Jul 10, 2019
If a child grew into adulthood according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Goethe One of my favourite pastimes as a child was building blanket houses. I would gather sheets, blankets and safety pins, pull together sofas, chairs and side...
by Amy Phillips | Jul 3, 2019
I’ve gone through several major purges at different times in my life and I’m always surprised by how quickly I accumulate things once I’m settled again. It’s like a gravitational force, not dissimilar to Parkinson’s law that “work expands so as to fill the time...
by Amy Phillips | Jun 26, 2019
One of the topics we returned to regularly in the nine-month Money Course I took in 2014 was the idea of integrity. Lynn Twist, one of the instructors and author of The Soul of Money, worked for many years with Werner Erhard (founder of EST, which then morphed into...
by Amy Phillips | Jun 19, 2019
One of the things I find fascinating about money is how taboo it is to talk about. It’s right up there with talking about death, perhaps even more so. Maybe it’s because they are so closely linked. Our survival depends on our ability to provide for ourselves and when...
by Amy Phillips | Jun 12, 2019
I wasn’t a brilliant student. I had to work hard to achieve my C average and struggled especially with exams. No matter how much I studied, the stress of test time took my memory off line. In retrospect, I would have been an ideal candidate for an alternative school....
