Barbara Diggs

Paris

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Scribbler. History books for kids, copy for biz, fiction for soul. Boy mom. Ex-attorney. Lives in #Paris. DC gurl. #binders #freelancer #amwriting

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Articles

TEEN GUIDE TO MANAGING MONEY

Sep 1, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Barbara Diggs |Ashley Lukashevsky

A basic overview of financial literacy with some techniques for managing income and expenses. Diggs points out that in a 2023 survey, Gen Z respondents got only about 25% of the basic questions about financial literacy correct. She certainly addresses a need—but she does it in a superficial and drearily conventional way that will stir few teen readers into making any major changes in their financial practices.
You Are What You Eat

Apr 21, 2024 | fracturedlit.com | Barbara Diggs

so I know you are eggs. Sunny side up, salmonella-scrambled, salsa-slathered, over-hard yellow-white discs fried in bacon grease until the edges curl like wispy brown lace. Your dad was the original egg man, eating five every day, insisting you ate at least three. One slurry night on somebody’s basement couch, you mumbled into my neck that you didn’t even like eggs, just learned to choke them down because it was easier and now you couldn’t stop.