After Setting a Boundary With My Family, I Learned Something Important at the Bank

journal, which is a book I have kept since 1991 — not a diary, not a journal in the confessional sense, but a record of financial decisions and plans, a habit Martha called my pilot log because she said I treated money the way pilots treat weather: with respect, with preparation, and with the understanding that conditions change.

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