2020 Check-In: Is It Over Yet?

The Traumatized Budget
7 min readJan 3, 2021

What Next.

In November I wrote a brief letter to my past self, two years more or less from the day a roof leak led me to start blogging my financial despair and recovery.

This past month, at the closing of one of the strangest years any of us has ever lived through, I was still trying so hard to get an inkling, to grasp even the vaguest sense of the whole year: what it was for me and my family financially (the subject of this blog), and what it was for us broadly, beyond money into our community and our nation and our human-being.

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The Traumatized Budget

I’m a 60 (😱)-something bohemian with a mountain of debt and regrets. Can I dig out before it’s all over? I brake for poets.