Last Updated on April 10, 2024 by Carolyn Using E-bird to Identify Birds by Sounds For Earth Month this year, I have decided to introduce readers to some eco-friendly apps.  Why use an eco-friendly app? Eco-friendly apps fill many purposes. With them, you can plant real live trees, find out where light bulbs can be recycled, reduce energy consumption, offset your carbon emissions, and much more. What Makes an App Eco-Friendly  eco-friendly (adjective) · ecofriendly (adjective) not harmful to the environment: True eco-friendly apps are developed using green princip ..read more

Last Updated on March 17, 2024 by Carolyn Belize It! Belize is Beatuiful!Belize Traveler’s Guide This Belize Traveler’s guide will give you the basics and tips on travel in Belize, that will help you have the best Belize vacation. I wish I’d known some of these things before I went! Why Visit Belize? Belize is a small Central American country with a lot to offer. It has something to appeal to everyone, which makes it a great family vacation destination. Easy To Get To Many of the major airlines fly to Belize, some of them offering direct flights and many priced quite reasonably. Belize is sit ..read more

Last Updated on February 27, 2024 by Carolyn Do I need to File a Beneficial Ownership report for my LLC? A Question about Beneficial Ownership Reports (BOI) A blog reader had the following question, and I thought the question and answer merited a dedicated post since this new reporting requirement applies to all LLCs, new and old as well as other business entities. Koreen Allen of Green Roots Botanicals asks: As an LLC owner, I would like to know more about the beneficial ownership report required by LLCs” Beneficial Ownership Reports (BOI) What are they? Beneficial Ownership Reports (BOI ..read more

Last Updated on February 10, 2024 by Carolyn Tax Questions Small Business Owners are Asking One of the goals, when I started this blog, was to provide useful answers to readers’ tax questions. I can’t tell you how often I cringe when I see someone post a tax question on a Facebook site and receive several answers, with most of them being wrong. There certainly are a lot of armchair professionals out there! In hopes of counteracting this promulgation of misinformation, I asked some fellow bloggers and small business owners to submit to me their tax questions and promised answers to them. Here ..read more

Last Updated on January 10, 2024 by Carolyn Start Living, Start Giving “We Make a Life By What We Give..” This is a snippet from a famous quote by Winston Churchill, the full quote being: “ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” Wise words. Find happiness, start living start giving. Giving and Living A Helping Hand is Always Appreciated (photo credit Andrea Piacquadio, Pexels)  How often have you regretted doing a favor for someone? Be it helping someone with a flat tire, giving a homeless person a few dollars, or picking a stray dog up from a busy highway ..read more

Last Updated on December 11, 2023 by Carolyn The Coastal Drive from Montezuma to Samara View of the Bohemian town of Montezuma from Coastal Road This post may include affiliate links which means I may receive compensation if you make a purchase via one of the links (at no extra cost to you). Please refer to my privacy policy for more information. After spending two nights in Montezuma it was again time to hit the road and explore some more of Costa Rica. Today we’d drive from Montezuma to Samara, another beach town approximately 80km northwest of Montezuma. Our Google map ..read more

Last Updated on November 6, 2023 by Carolyn Living on A Sailboat Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a sailboat? Not just take a trip but actually call your sailboat home? We are lucky to have Jill Bockenstette creater of the blog moneyformangos.com , share with us her and her husband Scott’s recent experiences of selling all to pursue life living on a sailboat. Meet Jill and Scott Jill was born in Detroit, MI and grew up in New Baltimore, MI northeast of Detroit. Scott is from Ohio and attended the US Coast Guard Academy where he learned to sail and navigate the high seas ..read more

Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Carolyn Living on A Sailboat Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a sailboat? Not just take a trip but actually call your sailboat home? We are lucky to have Jill Bockenstette creater of the blog moneyformangos.com , share with us her and her husband Scott’s recent experiences of selling all to pursue life living on a sailboat. Meet Jill and Scott Jill was born in Detroit, MI and grew up in New Baltimore, MI northeast of Detroit. Scott is from Ohio and attended the US Coast Guard Academy where he learned to sail and navigate the high seas ..read more

Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Carolyn Lazy Money Even those of us who don’t have a lot of money likely have “lazy money”; money that is sitting in an account not earning any interest. Have you considered just how much income you might be missing out on by having lazy money? Cost of Lazy Money While interest rates were low the cost of lazy money wasn’t so staggering but now that rates have risen it can be mind boggling. Let’s look at an example: Jill is in the process of funding an emergency fund as well as investing a portion of her take home salary. She has decided she’s comfortable wit ..read more

Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Carolyn Memorable Hotel-In a Bad Way You know a hotel is bad when two non-morning people can’t get out of bed early enough to leave! We were very glad to have an early morning meetup. We also considered ourselves lucky to wake up without additional bug bites, and without scary confrontations with unexpected bugs or other critters in the night. Despite a less than stellar evening at the hotel, we were quite ready to get out and explore more of the Nicoya Peninsula. We arrived in Carmona quite a few minutes early for our 7am meet-up. I was in dire need of a co ..read more