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How Pickleball Saved Me
Pickleball. The fast-growing sport with the silly name. If you’re not already playing, then you’re probably thinking about it, or maybe you have friends telling
Black History Month is Something All Americans Should Celebrate
It’s February, the month of the year designated as “Black History Month,” and I feel compelled to say something about it because Black History is
The HECM Line of Credit: It Should be Called the “Retirement Mortgage”
I need to straighten something out that is both important and widely misunderstood. HECM is the acronym used to describe the federal government’s insured mortgage
Older Homeowners Should Avoid a HELOC
HELOC stands for Home Equity Line of Credit, and it’s the most common way for people to tap the equity in their homes. HELOCs are
Why Doesn’t Every Homeowner Over Age 62 Do This?
The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or HECM for short, comes in various flavors. There’s the reverse mortgage, the HECM for Purchase, which can be used to
COVID-19: How we got here and what we need to do next.
The Covid-19 pandemic has hurt this country in innumerable ways. Beyond making people ill and killing just under a million, it caused incalculable economic harm
The Real Reason Trump Lost in 2020
It’s amazing to me that it has been 18 months since the 2020 presidential election and we’re still talking about it, but we are. There
My Father’s Many Gifts, and Mom Let Him Live
My father was a brilliant man in many ways. He was a Harvard grad, Class of ’52… a PhD in water chemistry who went to
