Your changing definition of risk in retirement

DURING YOUR ACCUMULATION YEARS, you may have categorized your risk as “conservative,” “moderate,” or “aggressive,” and that guided how your portfolio was built.

How to cope with loneliness

VIRTUALLY EVERYONE EXPERIENCES LONELINESS from time to time. The feeling can be especially noticeable around the holidays, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and times of extreme stress. The sheer number of adults in the United States who feel lonely is quite large.

The mystery of Christmas

Therein…lies the mystery of Christmas.“God…almighty maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible” renounces Godliness for our flesh: flesh that is thrust out of a mother’s womb, that suckles a mother’s breast, that pees and poops.Whose cells divide and grow, and whose heart...

NOBODY'S PERFECT - Take a picture of us

THE FIRST TIME I saw someone with a disability in a movie was when I was eight years old. I cried when I saw the movie Heidi decades ago. I remember watching the movie as a young child when I stayed home from grade school, suffering from the flu.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING - Take nothing for granted

It is not anybody’s job to take care of us, and we should be grateful when someone does. …nobody owes us life, a living, service or love—and when we are given these, we need to be grateful.+Rev. Ronald RolheiserOne chief idea of my life…is the idea of taking things with gratitude and not taking...

Four thousand Mondays

HOW OFTEN DO YOU think about death?

Retirement is a beginning— are you psychologically ready?

How do you know you are psychologically ready to retire? As a start, ask yourself these four questions:1.

By any other name, they would taste as sweet!

LIKE CRANBERRIES, SWEET POTATOES ARE A FOOD many Americans serve only at Thanksgiving—and maybe again at Christmas. That may be due to the fact that, although they’re available year around, they are in season during the months of November and December.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING - The trouble with language

Language is of only modest help. Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning.The sun shines without vocabulary.