Tonight starts one of my children’s favorite holidays, Purim (“Lots”). It also helped set my life’s compass. (I’ll explain this later.)
Monthly Archives: February 2018
“Alexa”
It seems that toy makers don’t really care if their ideas put our kids at risk. In their drive to conquer tot’s attention (and parents’ dollars), these folks are running amok with IoT offerings. (If you don’t know about IoT- and it’s insecurity- check out my blog series. This is the first blog in the series.)
Can I still deduct my HELOC?
Slowly, but surely, the understaffed and overtaxed Internal Revenue Service is producing guidelines that will help us help you to understand how they plan to regulate the changes that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (PL117-95)- and the budget resolutions of February 2018 (I have a blog post describing these coming soon)- have brought.
Is Kentucky Really Leading the Way?
I am sure you’ve all heard that Kentucky was granted permission to require Medicaid recipients to get a job. I am even sure many of you think this is a fine idea. After all, why should an able-bodied person get to flounder at home and use our tax dollars to garner a benefit.
Never Forget
It’s Black History Month. And, I wrote about Freedom House (1315 Duke Street, Alexandria) a year ago. During its 33 years of operation, some 1 million slaves were sold or traded from this building. Interestingly, these actions occurred even when Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia- Alexandria rejoined the Commonwealth in 1847, after 58 years of Federal Control. (The slave house actually operated from 1828 to 1861; that operation ceased when the US government forcibly took control over the city of Alexandria at the start of the Civil War.)
Zero Day
It’s no longer coming. Our underwater reservoirs are running dry (most of them have crossed the point of no return), and our deserts are getting bigger and are devastating more population centers. (I last wrote about this problem a few years ago .)
Living Trust
We’re following up on Friday’s post (the third in this group of four posts), where we began discussing this vehicle. A well-defined revocable living trust covers three phases of the Settlor’s life: his or her productive lifetime, possible incapacitation, and what happens after his or her death.
The third leg
In business- if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. In these cases, if you fail to plan, other people get to make your decisions. If you are alive and ill, then it’s terrible. If you are not, then your heirs may recall things with more than a bitter taste in their mouths. Consider them, prepare your choices, and act.
If there isn’t a Will, there’s usually NOT a way!
Yesterday, we spoke about advanced medical directives (living wills).
Continue reading If there isn’t a Will, there’s usually NOT a way!
Sometimes, we just have to do this
I know it’s Valentine’s Day. (This is about helping our loved ones [and ourselves], I promise.)
I’m going to share some information with you (and provide some directed actions) that will simply be rated M for mature. (No, no porn here- that’s the province of Stormy Daniels, not me.) And, it’s not only for our senior citizens (like me)- it certainly applies to everyone who has a family. Because we never know.