Well, my wife got part of the raise we were hoping for, which definitely helps. But that means we’re still going to be about $300 short per month. Her company wants to revisit her situation in 4 months. I’ve been able to bring in a lot of extra income this year, but again, the $50K we’re spending on medical and taxes out of her gross is keeping us underwater. Fortunately,

Helen, Satchel, Tanner, and I would like to thank everyone who donated this past week. Things are certainly looking up for us, and it appears — should Helen get her raise and /or promotion — that we will be in a position to recover fully once all the dust settles. And that’s because of all of you: over 730 people donated; and each one made a difference. If you sent

We haven’t really moved the needle back much. In fact, too many people have thrown in with the inevitability of this rank movement, including many on the “right.” It was a bad idea in 2006 and it’s a bad idea today: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=5865

Because of your generosity, we’re nearly to the point where we can break even every month, and keep our heads above water. Doing a deep dive into our finances, I found that we are paying an astonishing $50K per year out of our gross income on medical expenses for Satch / taxes. In large part, this is because the job my wife took — she manages offices in Dallas and

Helen and I just spent the morning talking to so credit counselors, and there’s a real chance we may be able to salvage our situation, if Helen’s raise does in fact come through. We initially thought we’d need somewhere in the neighborhood of $36-40K, but with a debt management program cutting some of our payments and interest rates — and the possibility that we could qualify for hardship programs based

As many of you know, my oldest son, Satchel, had a rare form of brain cancer, which — thank god — he’s had successfully treated. He’s fine, though he has to take a regimen of medicine every day to replace pituitary function, having lost his pituitary gland during the surgery. What many of you don’t know is this: at around the time my son was recovering and was in and

3 yrs ago, writing in The Federalist, I noted how the left’s embrace — and political deployment — of identity politics had given rise to, and a perverse justification for (in its own hive mind), white supremacy, a blunt rejection of the collective call by the left and academia to demonize whiteness. I pored over & unpacked the “alt-right manifesto” of an influential “thought leader” of the movement and found