Collecting My Thoughts

This Friday the Lakeside Women's Club book review is "Nomandland; surviving America in the 21st century" by Jessica Bruder. (2...

We may not be in a position to do #6 (gift up to $30,000 to an individual if married), but we all need to do #10, organize our records for 2...

Well, when I saw that heading, I said, “Too late.”  But these are good reminders published in Health Beat, Harvard Medical School. ...

Life tips for my friends and readers who are 45-ish. Put away about 15% in your retirement account, above what your employer or gover...

The president’s SOTU list—pre-K education; “equal pay”, raising the minimum wage or extending unemployment benefits--is not going to address...

Seniors are not hurting. "Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) has introduced legislation to increase Social Security benefits and build a g...

Social Security was designed for a nation with a life expectancy in the 60s. The plan was that not many would ever get what they were taxed ...

At the outset of the Social Security program (law was passed in 1935), the federal government published an informational pamphlet that stat...

Let Obama take us over the Fiscal Cliff (he's out campaigning for tax increases right now) so people know what he's about. Of cour...

When I graduated from college I was 21 and 5 months pregnant. I had other things on my mind than saving for retirement.  .  . like rent, foo...

Some people forget that G W Bush also inherited a recession. The percent of retirees in 2001 who felt very confident or somewhat confident ...

Maybe we'll just move in with the kids. Got this in my e-mail today. DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THE RETIREMENT LIFE YOU WANT? Merrill L...