The 5 Money Lessons I Learned From My Father
One day in the early 1960s, my dad arrived home from his Pittsburgh engineering and consulting firm and brought along a beautiful English leather saddle. He put it on the back of a living room chair with great fanfare. Mom laughed and asked what the heck he planned to do with it. “Well, someday we’re [...]
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11 Essential Money Tips for New College Grads
When my nephew Michael walked across the graduation stage at Wake Forest University last week to pick up his bachelor of science diploma, I wasn’t worried about his financial future. Ever since he was a teenager he has always saved and invested the money earned from a potluck of summer jobs. (I put that down [...]
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Working in Retirement: How to Be a Patient Advocate
This week, I received an email from a friend who has been caring for his ailing mother. Here’s what he wrote: “I feel very good about what I’ve been able to make happen here, no matter what it has cost me in time and momentum on other things. I had to fight — against a [...]
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The Perils of Working From Home
Earlier in my career as a journalist, I worked in an office. For nearly two decades, I trudged in every day and never did my job from home unless I was sick. Over the past 10 years, however, I’ve crafted my trade from my home office in Washington, D.C.; in reality, it’s more of a [...]
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6 Money-Saving Travel Secrets
Who doesn’t love a great travel deal? My husband, Cliff, and I are huge travel enthusiasts and we hit the trail whenever we can. I also get a great fiftysomething pleasure by taking one or more of my three nieces on what I call my “Auntie Mame” vacations. We’ve been to Dublin, London, Prague and [...]
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3 Ways Women Can Get Paid More at Work
Does it bum you out that women who work full time make 77 cents for every dollar a man is paid, on average? At 52, I’ve been grappling with this pay gap issue for years. If you’re a woman in your 50s or 60s with a career, my guess is you have, too. While the [...]
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Why You Need To Love Your Job More
What’s love got to do with your job? Apparently, quite a bit. I just read the new book, Love 2.0: How Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become by Barbara L Fredrickson, a pioneer scientist in positive psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Fredrickson’s message really resonated with me. [...]
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Taxes and Divorce: 6 Tips for Women
My hairdresser was a mess last week. As she washed, rinsed and snipped my locks, she talked nonstop about her taxes. She’s in her early 50s, with a child living at home, and in the middle of a nasty, complicated divorce. She told me that a whopping tax bill was the last thing she needed. [...]
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4 Stay-Cool Strategies For Today’s Hot Stock Market
It’s been a pretty gleeful gallop for U.S. stock market investors lately. That’s why I’ve been asking my girlfriends in their 50s and 60s whether the wow Dow had led them to buy more stocks and mutual funds or if it was making them uneasy Somewhat surprisingly, most of them weren’t the least bit worried [...]
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Sheryl Sandberg’s 5 Best ‘Lean In’ Tips For Women
Oh, my goodness. Talk about stirring up a flap. You’ve no doubt heard that Sheryl Sandberg, the 43-year-old chief operating officer atFacebook and formerGoogle executive, has written a provocative, buzzy book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. The outspoken Sandberg tells women that they need to “lean in” at work and assert themselves more. Hit the [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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