Financial Milestones For Your Child: Age-by-Age Guide How Do We Teach Our Children about Money? Setting and tracking financial milestones for your child is as important as the physical development milestones we track with the pediatrician or the growth marks on our kitchen post because early money skills such as savings, budgeting and planning for… Continue reading Financial Milestones For Your Child: Age-by-Age Guide
Author: Ama
Ama Danesi is an author, storyteller, and financial strategist. A self-proclaimed witness to what's possible when stubborn optimism is a core strategy, she holds an MBA and an M.A. in Humanities, and has worked in banking and management in corporate Nigeria and the U.S. She's written an anthology of diaspora stories, "Artificially Flavored Layers," and her upcoming debut children's book, "Mayen and the Unexpected Gift," is part of the Mayen Creative Series. Ama enjoys her family and life in beautiful, sunny California, and she blogs at amadanesi.com.
Man with Womb
Today, only wall sockets are bold enough to stare back. Faithful like peep holes who warn of shadows, passing and still. My strong thighs suggest - you not trespass. Savage with glossy lips to control the pride. You think you do...I know. I am the striding force I am the knowing wink My words escape,… Continue reading Man with Womb
All For The Perfect Name
I could have called myself Maya -- माया māyā Supernatural being of wisdom and power, an unfathomable plan, a detachment from incomplete fragments of reality, like a brief, disturbed drop of water from unbounded waves. How I could attain to an illusion that both conceals & pierces the veil? I certainly had the consonants… Continue reading All For The Perfect Name
Boarding School Days at Feddy
“Hey! you in that yellow dress...come here. Don’t make me chase you!” Somewhere in my peripheral vision, I could see someone pointing at me and gesturing wildly. These were the times I wished I could be a ghost, a phantom, a whisper or any kind of unseen being in boarding school. My yellow-checked day dress… Continue reading Boarding School Days at Feddy
Lessons
I am orphaned, how I need my Father near. This body aches from the sky draped on it like a million men. The waterfall from my knees grovels endless. The dollar stretches permissions, unsecures inhibitions but has no model answer to anquished questions. Still under armor and a sustainable savings program, my heart is… Continue reading Lessons
