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Nov 06, 2015
This week I visited with my Aunt June, a kind, wonderful and very loving lady. She’s called an assisted living residence home for about a decade now, and she gets along so well with the staff there that she considers them family...
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Nov 02, 2015
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Nov 02, 2015
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Oct 19, 2015
“I’ve been around awhile…” Whenever I start a conversation out this way, my children respond with a collective groan...
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Oct 12, 2015
When it comes to retirement, this is what I visualize: warm, sandy beaches mixed in with my grandchildren’s laughter...
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Oct 05, 2015
Darrow Kirkpatrick seems to be living the dream. He retired in Tennessee with his wife Caroline at age 50. No, he’s not a dot-com millionaire or a real-estate flipper or even a stock trader. He’s a planner.
“I did it the traditional way—hard work, frugality, prudent investing, and patience,” says Kirkpatrick, a former software engineer.
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Sep 29, 2015
There’s more to retirement than simply figuring out your finances; you also need to figure out what you’ll do with all the extra time on your hands. I can’t wait to have more time to spend with my grandkids, more time for travel, and more time for reading. And I can’t wait to give back.
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Sep 21, 2015
I remember the first time I experienced a drop in stock prices and the corresponding sticker shock of my earnings. I was 41 and had just started taking a real interest in my retirement plans. In my 30s, I was mostly focused on paying for a mortgage and paying down debt, not to mention raising a couple of kids. My statements would arrive, and I'd file them away. I don't know how many I actually looked at before that appointment with my financial adviser opened my eyes, but once the 2000 crash happened, I probably would have avoided some gray hairs and late nights if I stuck to the "ignorance is bliss" routine.
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