I’ve written several posts inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince—the first one explains how I chose my blog’s
Beware of Financial Baobabs
Financial DNA and Learning from the Past
I’ve had a lot of fun over the last year going through my family’s genealogy. Digging into rumors and fact, old documents and family stories (Spoiler alert: I was lied to as a child, and we are not, alas, illicit descendants of Queen Victoria). And as I’ve done that and have seen some of the struggles that my ancestors overcame, I’m struck by how much my financial heritage—my financial DNA, so to speak—influences my life now.