About

Hi.  My name is Lisa Spinelli, and welcome to my blog.

This blog is an interactive discussion site - mainly about personal finance and current events.  I encourage you to please leave your comments - either publicly or privately.  I enjoy hearing from everyone, whether I agree with you or not!  Your response will always have the respect it deserves.

I’ve been blogging for over a year now.  I started this site on Blogger in January, 2008.  It wasn’t long before I became quite obsessed with it, and decided to make the switch over to WordPress/DreamHost in March, 2008.

Frugality, Personal Finance, left-winger Politics, and Sustainability are long time interests of mine, and you’ll find many articles about each of these topics here.

I blog to interact with others that are working to create a stable, secure life financially - without compromising important values.

Other notes about me-

I’m happily married for almost two years now, to Pamela (you’ve gotta love Massachusetts!)

I have two, absolutely primo, highly spirited, highly intelligent “just-turned-adult” step-daughters, and two rambunctious dogs who together weigh no more than 20 lbs., Pete and Babette.

I live about an hour north of Boston, in a small coastal resort town called Newburyport.

In my off hours, I spend time blogging - what else?!, walking my dogs, reading on the beach, gardening, and drinking lots of coffee at the downtown Starbucks.

I have recently become mesmerized by the installation of a windmill - are they called wind turbines now? -by one of the local businesses.

I work in the biotechnology industry as a technical service specialist.

Other Interests include the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots, Psychology, Fair Trade, and the global economy.

My Interests (in no particular order):

Blogging!

My dogs

Beach

Boston Red Sox

New England Patriots

Gardening

Politics- I’m a left winger

Psychology

Personal Finance

Frugality

Protecting the Environment

Sustaining the Planet

Fair Trade

Global economy