PERSONAL FINANCE CONTRIBUTOR
Freelance writer at Bankrate with a focus on budgeting, mortgages, and credit cards.
I’m Nicole — a writer, musician, and freelancer.
Google calls me an American composer. Vox calls me a personal finance expert. I've been a freelance writer since 2012, I've written six books and dozens of songs, and I'm working on a chamber musical.
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Current projects
MONEY TALKS & ON THE MONEY
Advice and conversations about spending, saving and small business at Vox.
MELISANDE
A chamber musical based on E. Nesbit's short story "Melisande: or, Long and Short Division."
PIANIST AND ORGANIST
Full-time organist for the Quincy Unitarian Church, part-time accompanist for the Quincy Community Theatre and Quincy Symphony Chorus.
Thoughts
Federalist Papers #16-20
These are all basically subheds under Federalist #15: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union, so let&
One more Unitarian Easter arrangement
When I heard that the message was going to be about Easter as a metaphor for the turning of the
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
So the Unitarians requested "Easter, but not too Easter" and I said "okay, I'll give
Federalist Papers #13-15
Sooooooooo I was sort of getting bored with these – but then when we got to #15, Hamilton was all "
What the world needs now
The best way to tell this story, I think, is backwards.
The Unitarians, having figured out that I can play
Process update
After about a week in which I spent much of my time messing around with AI voices, I got back
Why I'm not worried about AI
What you are about to read was originally written in May 2023; I've been thinking about it recently,
Selected Works
THE BIOGRAPHIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: A novel of artistic ambition that follows three sisters from 1989 to 2016
WHAT IT IS AND WHAT TO DO NEXT: A four-volume inquiry into the process of understanding reality
I WISH YOU PEACE: A secular choral benediction for SSAA or SATB
FRUGAL AND THE BEAST: A collection of financial fairy tales
Reviews
Dieker excels at depicting how real people think and act.
Dieker writes with unrepentant honesty about the human condition.
A lovely, unpretentious story, suffused with feeling, that unfolds at the speed of life.
The longest consecutive quantity of lines that have required me to read them with full and focused attention.