Political websites are helpful. Many are full of active posters at all times and it’s frequent that a good article topic shows up in a comment that has not been covered by a major source yet. Sometimes the posters provide additional insight or research.

Open access journals. They provide in depth coverage of a topic, and the articles are written by professors who have links to other important information on their web pages.

Recently, I even found a source for an article from someone that I saw speaking on a panel. Maybe it’s that I’m super curious, so just about everything fascinates me.

One thing I can contribute… A good 15 years or so ago I came across an article extolling the virtues of “Grazing” – reading bite sized bits of information in areas that typically have nothing to do with your core area of interest. For the life of me I wish I could remember who said it as I’d like to THANK! THEM! PROFUSELY! In my pre-grizzled days “grazing” required a bit of advance planning and typically involved things like poking through the magazine racks at the local bookstore or watching a documentary on something random. In today’s uber-Twitterfried world, yeesh… I’ve got to count those grazing calories because the fodder is everywhere. My focus is on women & money – but some of my best ideas for personal finance pieces come reading on subjects ranging from social media to happiness. Grazing. Highly recommend it.