Journaling Your Small Business
As I sorted through some of my mother’s collection of memorabilia, I came across lists and letters and account summaries of her years operating a small country general store on the edge of our farm property.
My dad and a friend built it and the friend managed the business. When he had a heart attack, Mother (a former school teacher, who had no storekeeping experience) decided she would operate it. So during my last year of high school and my college years, I spend weekends and vacations working at the store and on the farm my father owned.
Mother didn’t make a fortune. …read more
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