Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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A short history of my personal finance: How freelancing saved my sanity and gave me back my soul.

Most have heard the apho­rism that “money can’t buy you hap­pi­ness.” Strictly true, I sup­pose, but then, money can buy things that will make you happy, at least for a while. Not all the things that would make you happy, pos­si­bly, but… it’s just not true in a looser sense. That’s not what I want […]

Exit Funk, Stage Left

You might have noticed that I was in a bit of a funk last week.  Thank you to every­one who made lovely com­ments on my last post.  I was feel­ing a lit­tle ashamed about my whin­ing there, so I haven’t thanked or replied to any­one indi­vid­u­ally.  I appre­ci­ate you all being there for me when […]

Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Staying Positive

I need to take a short break from writ­ing blog posts today so that I can fin­ish up my new busi­ness web­site and get things rolling on it.  Instead, today, I offer you this link from Rusch: Remaining pos­i­tive sounds like such a minor thing. Yet it is the key to every­thing. Oddly enough, suc­cess­ful freelancers […]

Personal Interlude: A Project Awesome update

When I’m too busy to write a nice, well-thought out blog post ahead of time, then things are actu­ally going pretty well. Project Awesome launched a month and a day ago.  Since then, I have had no more suc­cess in find­ing a job than before, but every­thing else has improved dra­mat­i­cally.  Freelancing is going very […]