Basic Estate Plan - Highly Recommended!

In 2007, I lost someone I loved very much to cancer. From the date of diagnosis in June of that year until his death in August, it was a mad scramble to put his financial and emotional “house” in order. It was a difficult time for me, struggling with anticipatory grief and challenged by constant caretaking as his health and spirit declined. I was forced to participate in end-of-life decisions that we had not put a lot of thought into due to our middle age and plans for the future. Although it needed to be done, it was not the time to add more challenges to an already stressful situation.

A New Year's Resolution

As the holiday season gets into full swing this December, health and fitness is likely the last thing on your mind.  With Christmas cookies and other assorted baked goods arriving at home, work or in the store, you are probably just as distracted as I am.  The holiday season is the time we forget about our master plan for healthy living and we enjoy ourselves and the friends and family around us.  As the holiday goes by we start to focus on the next year to come and what it will bring for changes in our lives, good or bad.  We make resolutions for these changes.  New Year’s resolutions are part of our annual vow to change certain parts of our life for the better.