Revisit your fiscal and financial priorities each day

BUILDING A HEALTHY FINANCIAL LIFE is an important concern that everyone should address with diligence and care. Rather than being a one-time event, evaluating your finances—and ensuring you don’t lose sight of your goals—requires timely, purposeful attention.

Host a stress-free thanksgiving

SO, YOU’VE DECIDED TO STEP UP AND HOST THANKSGIVING DINNER THIS YEAR, or perhaps you drew the short straw and had hosting duty thrust upon you. In either case, you want this special family event to come off without a hitch under your watch—or at least without any major catastrophes.

The Great Couple Skate Debacle

LAST MONTH, my wife, Melissa, and I celebrated a major milestone—our 30th wedding anniversary. In this day and age, remaining happily married for 30 years is no small feat; however, our story together goes back much further than that.

Match the perfect wine to your Thanksgiving meal

THERE ARE TWO RULES TO OBSERVE WHEN CHOOSING A WINE to accompany any meal. Rule #1: Drink the wine you like. Rule #2: If the wine you like “doesn’t go” with the food you’re eating, see Rule #1.

I’m retired… now what?

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. -Mr. (Fred) Rogers, 1928-2003 AFTER DECADES IN THE WORK FORCE, retirees finally get complete control over how they spend their time.

A WALK IN THE PARK Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you

WHEN WE LEFT OFF LAST MONTH, Shirley and I had been to the Smokies and up the Blue Ridge Parkway. This month, the trip continues through Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING Looking to the common good

HOW DID IT GET TO BE NOVEMBER ALREADY? Does time fly for you as quickly as it does for me and my friends? Every week I seem to have a discussion or two about how quickly the week has flown by and then we comment on the fact that it’s almost the end of the year and where did it all go?

NOBODY’S PERFECT Products that make life easier

MAKING VEGETABLE BEEF SOUP is a lot easier for me these days— all because of some household items. Soup making is a Saturday project. I start with cutting my meat and then prepare the vegetables.

Five hiking trail etiquette tips

WITH COVID-19 NUMBERS still unacceptably high courtesy of the Delta variant, more and more people are turning to the (well-ventilated) great outdoors for recreation opportunities.