In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am going to do some, well, thanks giving today. I have a lot of things to be thankful for and I really don’t express my thanks often enough so when the Calendar tells me to, I have no excuse. This year, my life has changed in so many ways. […]

As I mentioned yesterday, we are eating much more produce this year than we ever have in the past. Sometimes I look at the changes in our eating habits around the home and think, Oh no! We are suffering from lifestyle inflation, but then I realize that we were living well under our means for […]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to plan for retirement these days. Bursting market bubbles, the possibility of hyper-inflation, increased healthcare costs, plummeting home values, and diminished retirement accounts are just a few of the factors that make the term ‘retirement planning’ seem like some sort of cruel joke. But while it may be impossible to […]