Monthly Archives: September 2026
Who Cares About The Rule Of 173?
The obstacles to writing a will exist mostly in your mind. The hardest part about writing a will is thinking about how life will go on after you are gone. Once you can let yourself envision a world where the people you love carry on without you, it is easy to think about how… Read More »
Surviving The Retirement Marital Mismatch
Some people are frustratingly committed to dominating conversations at social events by spouting one size fits all advice in painstaking, uninterruptible detail. If a fellow guest at a social event is droning on about how every retired person should spend his or her time and money and how much it will cost, you can… Read More »
Nieces And Nephews As Beneficiaries Of Your Will
Among the cheaper plot devices writers use is when a character inherits a vast sum of money from an aunt or uncle that the character did not realize was wealthy, and where the character did not know that he or she was a beneficiary of the relative’s will. In practice, inherited wealth passed from… Read More »
Smile Or Smirk: Graphing Your Retirement Expenses In The Form Of A Facial Expression
At this time of year, cash-strapped teachers always write op eds, and old fogeys like us always read them. They fret about how much the education level of our society has declined since they were students, or since they first became teachers. These days, Chat GPT and its fellow chatbots receive a disproportionate share… Read More »
