Be Flexible, Be Weird
5 min readAug 27, 2023
August Financial Check-In
When I was a kid, like many a kid, I had a complicated relationship with Barbie.
First of all, my mom didn’t let us have new Barbies or Barbie accouterments, so I mostly had to play Barbie at other kids’ houses. In our house, we settled for a classic Barbie and old-school Skipper — I think a GI Joe had to stand in for Ken. (We weren’t allowed new GI Joes either, so he was…