On the weekends, my boyfriend and I like to go on exploring adventures. Sometimes we go by foot, or we take our convertible Mini Cooper (which we refer to as mini adventures), OR we take our motorcycles. On this particular adventure, we took our motorcycles (Triumph Bonneville for him, Harley Sportster for me). Our destination: Mt […]

This week I had a chance to attend an event, “Financial Diaries: Building Financial Resilience in the Bay Area” at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The event brought together a panel to discuss the results from the financial diaries of 235 low- and middle-income families in the U.S. which was recently published in […]

I recently watched the 30th anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The last time I had seen the movie was when I was in a science fiction film class in college in 2004. I was amazed at how little I remembered of the story. I remembered the flashing lights, the […]