Check out my new website!
I am so excited to announce my new and improved website! Thanks to Laura Bean of One Stop Ops for designing and making the new site work. Willy Wilson of Life Unstill Photography did her best to make me…
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April Showers – yada, yada, yada
It’s time to start thinking about your summer garden plans. Here are 3 tips that are easy and inexpensive to beautify your outdoors. Recycle for outdoor art “Unwanted light fixtures, wooden barrels, hat boxes, wicker baskets, beer crates and wash basins can be easily converted into unique and eye-catching containers for plants. Scrap pieces…
5 Funny quotes about Easter
Easter shopping tip: When buying your daughter that frilly new Easter dress, try to visualize how it’ll look with chocolate and grass stains all over it. ~ Melanie White Easter is the only time of the year when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket. ~ Unknown My mom used to…
Cheapest Places to Spend Retirement
In a recent article by ABC7Chicago.com, Spring, Texas retiree Terry Robison details his plans to spend his retirement living at the local Holiday Inn. He cites regular cleaning, someone to check up on him (in the form of the regular cleaners), free maintenance, and amenities included in the daily room rate as reasons for his decision.…
What Does a Student Loan Mean to My Student?
Here’s a shocking bit of news: College is way more expensive now than it was when I was an eager new CSU Ram in 1990. There aren’t many families that will get out of college without some sort of loans to pay back. But how much is reasonable? Private student loans are unlike any…
Thinking Long Term – An Apology
I’ve had occasion to think lately about how heartless my investment advice must sound. I glibly assure you that stock market dips are temporary, and things will be just fine in the long run, just suck it up and tough it out, already. Sorry about that. What I haven’t done is acknowledge that volatile…
