Hello and welcome! My name is Jessica, but feel free to call me Jess. In Progress is a name I gave myself in the fall of 2003 when my first marriage was ending, but not over. I wanted my maiden name back but felt like a fraud using it since it wasn’t legal yet. IContinue reading “The “Real” About Me”
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Financial Background & Zero-Based Budgeting
My money background is that I grew up rather poor yet with a safety net of well-off grandparents. Seeing my grandparents have a steady, full life unencumbered by financial stress or worry showed me money may not equal happiness, but lack of money more often than not did equal unhappiness. In my tweens, I startedContinue reading “Financial Background & Zero-Based Budgeting”
Once Upon A Time
There was a girl who grew up in Chicago and spent her summers with her grandparents at a cabin on a lake near Eagle River, Wisconsin. She always dreamed of living in that cabin year-round. Sometimes she wanted to live there because she wanted to stay with her grandparents (although they only lived there inContinue reading “Once Upon A Time”
In Progress Jess 