Tackling the Tough Topics
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity” – Tom Stoppard Aging is not a common topic of conversation in our culture. Just look at our movies and television shows and you can see that they are very youth-focused, even our commercials tell us how to stay younger longer. With all this focus on […]
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Don’t Trust the “Trust Mills”
You’re an educated person. You have a degree, you’ve held a job, had responsibilities and a family. You’ve always done the smart thing and made what you hope are the right decisions, and you’d like to continue doing the smart thing. So when an “expert” hands you a flyer and tells you that for a few hundred or […]
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The Gift of Education
Your grandson’s birthday is coming up, and once again you’re stumped for ideas. You may wonder, is there something other than video games I can give him; something with a lasting value? How about an education? Give your children or grandchildren the most useful gift of their lives, and benefit yourself as well; contribute to […]
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Linney on “The Savages”
I love movies. Reading about Laura Linney’s interview about her role in the 2007 movie, The Savages, reminds all of us the issue of caring for aging parents. “The biggest gift you can give me is to help me figure out what to do during that period of time. If we can talk about this […]
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Women – the Last Leaf on the Tree
Do you know who will take care of you when you no longer able to take care of yourself? According to this article in Investment News, your caregiver is likely to be a woman, and most likely to be your daughter or daughter-in-law. What this means is that unless you have a plan for your […]
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Protect Yourself From Elder Financial Abuse
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.” ~Mark Twain Mark […]
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