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Grave Misconduct – How to Protect Yourself from Postmortem Debt, Author Alicia Ranch-Traille

When you die, what will you leave behind? A secret family recipe for your award-winning shrimp gumbo? A published memoir of your youthful antics? A storage unit packed to the gills with Beanie Babies? Whatever shape your legacy takes, if you’re like most Americans, there’s a chance you’ll also leave behind some debt. If you [...]

Finding Success in Today’s Job Market in your 50s and 60s, author Laura Resnick-Chavez

It’s no secret that in the current economic downturn, baby boomers are finding ourselves fearful of losing our jobs to younger workers, and/or struggling to find new employment.   For 30 years I’ve helped displaced homemakers, kids just out of college, former CIOs and CFOs and everyone in between prepare themselves for the job market. Recently, [...]

The Courage to Surrender, Part 11 in the Series by john w

How life was – party town and reefer madness – 1972 > 1977 In 1973, my training and creativity introduced new ideas that I successfully implemented which put me on a fast track career that I struggled to accept. I feared the social expectations that are tied to high level management because I didn’t have the [...]

5 Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund Wisely, by Melissa Crossman

Receiving your tax refund can be a lot like finding money in the pocket of an old pair of pants, both of which are usually spent without much thought. Although our tax refunds come every year, we always seem to think of them as a surprise surplus of money. According to the IRS, the average [...]

Improving the Quality of Life for You and Your Parents, by Dr. Eva Mor, Author of “Making the Golden Years Golden”

If someone were to ask how we would like to see ourselves in the later years of our lives, most of us would respond: independent, healthy, and active. This is not such a far-fetched dream as had been for our parents, and even they achieved those ambitions from time to time..  The life expectancy today [...]