Tony is also known as “The Lighthouse Keeper.” As a Catholic Blogger, he founded and edited “Your Daily Tripod,” which was online from 2006 to 2022. YDT was a Cursillo-based commentary on the piety, study, and action cycles of our lives from the vantage point of deep suburbia (Fairfax, VA). Your Daily Tripod reflected my journey and those of the other human contributors. Our prayer is that the blog invited and inspired your journey as much as writing and delivering it to you with the Holy Spirit inspires ours. Subscriptions were free (so to speak). “If anyone wishes to come after Jesus, she/he must deny herself and take up her cross daily and follow Him.” Like I said, free so to speak.

I am now retired after working from 1980 through 2025 in various mostly charity marketing positions – the last 12 years helping to run the employee workplace charity campaign in the Federal Government.

Now, I merely want to pay our bills, make our savings last longer than our mortal time, play with grandchildren, and explore. That is where Tiller comes in. The personal computer revolution started in the 1980s introduced me to Andrew Tobias’ Managing Your Money. I have tried everything that has come afterward – Quicken, Mint, MSFT Money, and more. Tiller seems to me an ideal open-source community to replace all those other products. It has the help and tools needed to make it work.

My interests include photography, music (especially jazz and classical), movies, books, and history.

My favorite movies for anyone who cares about such things are Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dr. Strangelove, MAS*H, Cinema Paradiso. I am an Andor(k).

My favorite music includes anything by Paul Simon and John Coltrane, and that is just the start.

Favorite books. My first job was in a library, and I was an English major in college. So, this list is too long, but we’ll start with “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce),” “Anna Karenina (Tolstoy),” “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig),” the “Daybooks” by Edward Weston and the Gospel of St. John. And I never miss a chance to plug Tobias’ “The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need.” Not that I did not buy plenty of others along the way.

I wish I could say I have some magic investing or money insight. Start early. Dollar cost average. Live below your means.