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We’re celebrating couples and individuals in midlife that inspire … I hope you enjoy these uplifting stories, and if you know someone who should be celebrated, please let me know. Sep 10 Healthy Retirement Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post … Continue reading →

Recently published in the Globe and Mail, on investing in 2009 and the challenges faced in the current economic environment by organizations that depend on our generousity… Investing 2009 A Time to Give 2009 Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post … Continue reading →

As I find a bit of time here and there over the summer, I’ll be updating my portfolio pages. If you’re interested in finding out what I’ve been so busily writing about, please check it out. Bookmark on Delicious Digg … Continue reading →

Joy is an essential element in every life, and in our quest for financial freedom, we’re all striving for that balance between spending and saving that is highest on the joy scale. In order to spend or save, most of … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the privilege of being part of a discussion on the nature of change and our relationship to it. One of the ideas that occurred to me as a result of the insights offered by people around the … Continue reading →

Were you at the VPL Forum last night? Would you like to continue the discussion? Please register and leave your comments here — I’d love to hear from you! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via … Continue reading →

$25 — the minimum loan — makes so little difference in our Western lives: a movie for two (without popcorn), half a tank of gas. But in the developing world, it can be the capital required to escape poverty, build … Continue reading →

Bernie Madoff, economy, scandal, investments | Salon Life I was fleeced by Madoff The financial guru’s Ponzi scheme cost me 30 years of retirement savings. How could he do this to me — and why did I let him? By … Continue reading →

What Americans don’t need, says the author, is another made-in-China television. Op-Ed Contributor Dying of Consumption By STEPHEN S. ROACH Published: November 28, 2008 There is a deeper, potentially positive, meaning to the decline in consumer spending: Americans are now … Continue reading →