Blogging is occasionally tossed out as a way of bringing in passive income. But as someone who earns money blogging, I don’t think this is quite accurate. It’d be better to describe it as a very involved source of income with a passive side.

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Last week I asked you if there was anything you’d been wanting to ask and see answered on the blog. Well, here are the answers! If you ever have a question, feel free to contact me.
Vered asks:
I am curious about your long-term plans… say 10 years from now: where do you see yourself, financially, professionally, [...]

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Welcome to the Vampire Slaying edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! Today’s categories and comments draw inspiration from something I’ve been enjoying lately–the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. While it deals with monsters & evil, the series also covers everyday issues of life, death, work, and finance. It may not be fully realistic there either, but it provides food for thought—both in what it includes and in what it leaves out.

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Morning all! In his Be a Blogger series, Frugal Dad wrote about capturing blog post ideas when inspiration hits.
Today I have a follow-up guest post over there about using Gmail’s features and/or the Sandy tool (which I use for all kinds of scheduling) to help you organize and store those post ideas and then schedule [...]

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The biggest reason I write is because I enjoy writing and find my subject matter interesting. But the second reason is because sometimes people tell me that they’ve found something I wrote useful.
I also get a number of reader questions by e-mail, and generally I reply by e-mail rather than on the site. Recently, though, [...]

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