Last weekend, I took Saoirse for her first time to see kites flying. She was much more interested in seeing the other children than the kites, but the experience brought back one of my favorite childhood memories of flying a kite. Well really, it involves crashing a kite.
When I was about 4...
I have loved dogs for as long as I can remember. I grew up with parents who were on the opposite end of the loving dogs spectrum. My father did not want anything to do with them, and my mother loves them. I have 4 siblings and between the 5 of us and my mother, my father was worn down. On...
With tax season behind us, the big financial news coming from Washington, D.C. now is about the debt ceiling. Here we’ll talk about what’s going on, what could happen, and what it means for your portfolio.
Congress authorizes various forms of spending through the legislation it passes. When...
As the training wheels come off and we get more experience as empty nesters we recently decided to go farther afield with our travel. My wife Martha loves art history and is a big fan of European artists from the 17th through 18th centuries. She read about an exhibition for the Dutch artist...
Briana will turn a year old in a few weeks. This seemed like a good opportunity to pause and reflect on what a wonderful and eventful year it’s been.
The biggest change has probably been her mobility. We’ve really come a long way since those first few days when the only thing she could do was...
I’m a bit obsessed with dates and numbers (hey – can you expect anything else from someone whose passion is Finance?). I appreciate a date like 4/4 (which is today!) more than most people. Therefore, when it recently came to my attention that I was turning one billion seconds old, I was a bit...
I was in Maui in March 2011, when Tokyo had the 9.1 earthquake.
It was March 10th, and my husband and I went on a whale watch. January, February, and March are prime whale season in Hawaii. The humpback whales migrate there to have their babies in the warm water. We had been on this particular...
We wanted to share our thoughts regarding SVB Financial Group and Signature Bank being taken over by federal regulators. The capital markets have been predictably frightened and volatile on this news of two bank failures. While we are always monitoring developments in the economy and financial...
I always wondered whether my kids’ high school or college years would go by more quickly. Our visit last month for senior parents’ weekend had me revisiting this question and working through the mental exercise. One morning Molly and I went to a local coffee establishment, her studying and me...
Our latest milestone is crawling – we aren’t there yet but we are getting very close.
It started with a kind of army crawl, as Briana used her arms to pull herself forward while her torso remained on the ground. She was very happy about this and would kick her legs in excitement as she went...
We all remember the day we got married, March 2020 when the world went into quarantine, and the day our children are born. But what about the months in between these pivotal moments?
Since a young age, time has always felt like it was passing so quickly. As I sat in the classroom, days turned...
Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are more similar than not.
They’re both baskets of many individual stocks, bonds, and other securities that help spread out your investments in the stock market. Instead of hand-selecting singular assets on your own, you can use either type of fund...
