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The first 150-year-old man may already have been born, according to Leonard Guarente, a professor of biology at MIT (The Coming Death Shortage, Atlantic Monthly). Let’s set aside the pre-diluvian human life span for a moment and focus on our modern life span. Have we found the Fountain of Youth? Can we really extend our life expectancy and our quality of life past 100 years? If so, how can we afford to live 15, 20, even 50 years longer? According to Dr Guarente, we may be ab

We're engaged! It was amazing – so unexpected; well, not really unexpected; But, it is so fantastic, so incredible and so (to be honest) scary. What do we do now? We have so much to do. Where do we get started? The wedding; how do we plan the wedding? (Reality can set in very quickly – get used to it.) After everything calms down a bit, most engaged couples realize they have a lot of work to do, including planning the wedding. It can be fun. It is certainly exciting, but th

Everyone counts the days until summer vacation, then, 28 seconds after it starts…”I’m bored.” So what can you do? Many spend a small fortune trying to keep the kids occupied and entertained – There’s church camp, Parks and Rec with the City, a local staycation / vacation – you know those trips to Disneyland, SixFlags, Schlitterbahn Water Park (I kid you not), Knott’s Berry Farm, Knoebels (pronounced just like it’s spelled), Cedar Point, Sandusky Ohio (voted the Best Amuse

There is some interesting news coming out about the financial well-being of Americans. By ‘interesting’ I mean – ‘scary’; Scary like “We’re gonna need a bigger boat”, scary, cuz that Great White shark called Reality is about to bite us in the… well you get the picture. The news is from sources like the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). EBRI has been conducting research on retirement plans since 1978. That’s a lot of research. Retirement