August 2025

The 3 Scenes of the Superman Movie I Made It Into

The 3 Scenes of the Superman Movie I Made It Into

2 Comments / Life in Early Retirement, General Thoughts / /

Last summer, I wrote the post “Lights, Camera, Exhaustion: I Worked as a Movie Extra for 6 Grueling Yet Awesome Days” about the opportunity I had to be an extra in a movie. It was so cool to get the chance to do this and see how the sausage is made. It was also grueling with a lot of long days in the hot sun. At the time, I wasn’t allowed to reveal the movie that they were filming. However, […]

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The Surprising FAFSA/SAI and Roth IRA Conflict that Almost Sabotaged Our Financial Aid Plan

The Surprising FAFSA/SAI and Roth IRA Conflict that Almost Sabotaged Our Financial Aid Plan

20 Comments / Taxes and Financial Planning, Education, Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE), Investments, Kids / /

Updated: 08/27/25 We’re closing in on the end of my 7th year of early retirement. I was fortunate enough to run my last day on the hamster wheel on December 31, 2018. At the time, I had a plan and was confident it would work (though there’s always that tiny bit of self-doubt!). Fortunately, it’s worked better than we could have expected, thanks in part to retiring at a time when the stock market has continued to climb with only

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