Information of a personal nature.
My Comments: Our lives inevitably come to an end at some point. The question for all of us is what happens to the stuff we owned before the end arrived. It makes sense to help make sure those we leave behind aren’t further aggravated by spending time and money getting the stuff organized and properly …
Continue reading Estate Planning Checklist: A 7-Step Guide to Getting Your Affairs in Order
My Comments: I now have a collection of over 20,000 images, taken by me and my parents that reflects not only our stuff, but where we were, when it happened and what. Things like my father on a tractor in Vermont in 1924. It’s taking forever to get it organized. I’m trying to leave a …
Continue reading Time to Face Reality: Your Kids Don’t Want Your Stuff!
My Comments: This warning notice came to me from a woman I trust whose professional focus is helping those of us who are in the later stages of our lives. Her name is Star Bradbury and she lives here in Gainesville, Florida. Her recent email to me about this potential financial threat arrived in my …
Continue reading FBI Warns of Huge Uptick in Elder Financial Scams!
A Quick History Lesson: I have no memory of where or when I found this story. With all the annoying issues currently playing out in our country and around the world, I thought it might be helpful for all of us to focus on something less stressful. So here goes: The US standard railroad gauge …
Continue reading The History Behind the Width of Roads in the United States
My Comments: In my many years on this planet, there have always been financial issues that affect virtually all of us. Today, there’s fear we’re heading toward a recession, there’s an election approaching which has many people concerned, inflation is an issue with too many of us on the lower end of the spectrum dealing …
Continue reading Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time
My Comments: I have no reason to doubt the majority of scientists that posit that we are approaching, if not already there, a tipping point with respect to dramatic climate changes. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, I will not likely experience it beyond the current heat levels in north central Florida. You are right in that …
Continue reading Marker for the collapse of a key Atlantic current discovered
My Comments: I recently switched to a Medicare Advantage plan. I’d resisted it for years and then decided “Why Not?”. I did some research, found a qualified financial expert in Volusia County, FL, and after talking with him at length, made the switch effective last January 1. Then I came upon this article and am …
Continue reading Older Americans Feel Trapped in Exploitative Medicare Advantage Plans
My Comments: I’m a 60-year resident of Florida and the following may not interest those of you who live elsewhere. Unless you’re planning to move here soon. It resonates with me as I live in central Florida where hurricanes are typically less severe and coastal flooding is not an issue. Just know millions of people …
My Comments: My early years were spent in Europe where I learned our climate was moderated significantly by the Gulf Stream. Warm water flowing up from the tropics assured us that freezing to death in England and France was a rare happening. My life on this planet is increasingly limited. I’m truly concerned about a …
Continue reading Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global
My Comments: This is perhaps a long read but given the dramatically different values expressed by those on the political right vs those on the political left, these words helped me better understand the dichotomy. The message from Eric Sentell gives me a little more hope for my children and grandchildren. When I first registered …
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