Lisa A. Crayton
Lisa A. Crayton is the money columnist for Enrichment Journal and Next Step Magazine, a publication for high school and college students.
Making Sense of Teens and Money
My first introduction to debt was using (with permission) my sister’s credit card to shop for back-to-school clothes. As a high-schooler, I never thought twice about how the bill would be paid. Because there was no immediate connection between my spending and the bill payment, I was oblivious to the fact that credit cards were [...] Read More >
Real Life, Real Fear, Real Faith
My father lay dying. In a sweat-soaked bed in the emergency room of a Brooklyn, New York, hospital, he lay gasping for air desperately trying not to panic as his heart beat erratically. As I watched my father’s life seemingly ebb away due to chronic heart stress, strands of a familiar hymn floated through my [...] Read More >