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Blindsided: How Not To Be …
January 21, 2013
Blindsided: I like this word. But I never want it to happen to me.That’s why I sat for hours today, on the deck with my bare feet up on the rail… thinking.The day was a little grey, not your typical Florida winter day. Read more »
Other Featured Articles on Money
Betty Has Her Say: A Wife's View of Retirement
January 18, 2013
Over the past 30 months of writing for Satisfying Retirement there have been lots of posts that have included information about my wife, Betty, and our journey together. Probably two or three dozen e-mails over that time have asked to hear more from her and ... Read more »
The Journey to Intimate Wealth
January 14, 2013
People who aren’t “woo woo” at all have started talking about a shift from the outside to the inside. From external, material success to internal, more intimate wealth.“Intimate wealth?”Well, many can’t exactly describe it. But it’s as if the shake-up of the past ... Read more »
Financial Freedom
Living a Coherent Life
January 9, 2013
For Fred, the toughest part of losing his job was that he had also lost a part of his self definition. Who was he today? What was his role in his family? How would he fill each day after checking online for jobs, sending out ... Read more »
Mom's Travel Journals
January 4, 2013
While going through a closet I stumbled across two interesting items we removed from my parent's apartment when dad moved to assisted living last fall. One was an envelope stuffed with index cards. On both sides of each mom had listed every book she had ... Read more »
Financial Freedom
Where Kids Get Their Money Messages
December 26, 2012
In a big house up on the hill …As always, the house is perfect. My mother starts decorating about a month early and by the time the holidays get here, I can’t stand the smell of Christmas trees and those sticky-sweet candles. What’s worse, ... Read more »
Money Headlines
Who can inherit guns legally?
janebryantquinn.com, May 20, 2013
Long-term care: Ignore it at your own peril
moneywatch.com, May 20, 2013
Energy Exports Are Good! But!
Huffington Post, May 20, 2013
Energy Exports Are Good!
May 18, 2013
The Financial Condition of Pre-Retirees: Precarious
AssetBuilder, May 17, 2013
See More Headlines »“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That’s why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history — they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
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