The YouTube algorithm recently showed me a Consuelo Mack interview with Jonathan Clements. I initially considered the possibility but dismissed it.
Until one of my Telegram group members watched and shared with us:
For those who have not paid attention to the space, Journalist Jonathan Clements spent a large part of his career educating us in personal finance. He created the excellent forum/blog Humble Dollar. Humble Dollar became a platform for folks of different walks of life to tell their money stories.
Jonathan Clements had some balance issues and went to see the doctor.
Two days later, he received a devastating cancer diagnosis. Scans revealed a golf-ball-size tumour on his lung, and the disease has spread to his brain, his liver and elsewhere.
I was honestly quite shocked when I got the news. I don’t know Jonathan personally but perhaps both of us, being financial writers, made me imagine how possible that would have been me instead of him.
What clouded my brain a year after my dad passed away…