I read the memoir Flat Broke With Two Goats by Jennifer MaGaha. She writes about her life as a mother of three and a wife. When the story starts the two eldest children are in college and the youngest is in high school. The author's husband is an accountant so naturally she left the money matters to him. For some reason the accountant husband messed up. He failed to file taxes. He hid their debts. Despite not being able to pay their daily debts they continued to send their youngest to an expensive private school. Eventually their house was foreclosed. They moved to a rustic cabin in the country of North Carolina and decided to raise goats. The author worked as a professor on English but never was able to get a full time position. Most people in their financial position would get a steady job but that is not the way this couple did things. They invested their money (some of which was being garnished by the IRS) into buying more goats. Some chapters have recipes at the end such as goat cheese and soap made with goat milk. This was an interesting story but some of the decisions that were made had me shaking my head. I could not feel comfortable living like she chose to live.
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