What Your Money Means and How to Use It Well (Frank J. Hanna, III, Crossroad Publishing, 2008). 

I wrote What Your Money Means because some time ago I realized that I'd spent years learning how to make money, but never expected that spending it — in particular, spending it wisely — would be so challenging . . . or so frustrating.

Money can accomplish a lot of good for ourselves, for those we love, and for others we don’t even know. Yet sometimes it’s almost impossible to decide which of those countless good things we ought to be doing, and when we should begin devoting our wealth to those tasks: now or later.

Sure, there are plenty of people ready to tell us how and when to part with our money: friends, relatives, economists, sociologists, financial planners, and various others, few of whom have worked to accumulate wealth, and therefore don’t really understand what it’s like, day-to-day, to carry its burdens. So I decided to see if I could offer answers that would satisfy me, and all the rest of those groups.  In the coming weeks here, I'll sketch out some of those answers.