How To Financially Prepare for a New Baby
There’s no easy way to say this – having children can be expensive. Whether you’re a first time mom or planning to add to your family, it’s hard to determine …
Letter From the Editor: Spring Happenings!
I don’t know about you, but spring feels especially welcome this year! Spring is such a time of promise – the promise of time in the sun, new growth, shaking …
A Girls’ Night Out…In the Frozen Section
It’s Sunday night and like many of us right now… I feel like I haven’t had a weekend. I can’t believe it’s Monday tomorrow, and all I have to show …
Mortgage Rates – What to Watch
To Buy, Refi… or Wait?: Mortgage Rate Updates While rates seem high now, they are relatively low from an historical perspective. In 1981, the 30-year mortgage rate peaked at 18.4% …
Annapolis Buy Nothing Groups: The Impact of Free
If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that no one wants our “stuff.” However, people involved in the Buy Nothing Project know that’s not true. The Buy …
Annapolis Moms Demand a Seat at the Table
It’s funny, a year ago I sat down with a potential sponsor who asked for a meeting and the first thing he said was, “I’m sorry– which moms group are …
Messy Office, Messy Hair…but Doing Great!
Today we had almost 1,000 copies of our magazine delivered. In our office, there are 1,000 magazines, hundreds of thumbs up clings, and a white board covered in a hundred …
Who Starts a New Magazine? We Do!
For 4 months, I have been given every reason why starting a new magazine in Annapolis was a bad idea. Everything from, “You have no idea how complicated it is!”, …
A Community of Resilience
Annapolis Moms Thrive in a Year of Challenges and Triumphs This has been quite a year for us moms. We’ve seen record high divorce and childhood depression and anxiety, and …
PursePower: Fasting…for your Financial Health
Well, the holidays are over. We can debate about how long Christmas decorations should stay up (until Epiphany on January 6th), but the financial hangover has probably already started. A …