Passions That Pay

Working from home with very young children is enormously challenging and my hats go off to those parents who are able to do this. My children aged 10,12 and 14 are all at school so it is easier to manage but there are still particular challenges when attempting to run a professional home office and [...]

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I was listening to NPR interviewing Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and last year’s Nobel Peace prize winner. He is a fascinating man who has come up with a viable and sustainable solution to poverty. There is much to write about his ideas but I was particularly interested by one facet of [...]

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I know it’s corny and the failure rate is high but I still love setting a New Year’s resolution. This year I have decided to pay more attention, to be more actively involved in my life, to stop making so many decisions by default. I want to be aware of everything I eat rather than [...]

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Have you ever considered hiring your children to work in your business? It affords the opportunity for your child to save for college or a car and gives you tax breaks on the money. Not being a financial planner myself, I was very pleased that Kristine McKinley has produced a very inexpensive report detailing all [...]

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One of the huge reasons people choose to work from home is that they have children that they don’t want to put in daycare. Pam Sargant, who describes herself as artist/writer/singer/songwriter makes some wonderful suggestions on how to combine working with young children in her blog post on the subject. I wanted to [...]

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