It’s Not About The Money: 5 Steps To Moving Out Of Financial Fear

5 steps to get rid of financial anxiety. Look around you, at your friends, extended family and even your co-workers and mutual acquaintances. Doesn’t it seem like everyone you know is navigating through some financial issue or situation? Ask any one of those people what the biggest, most stressful area of their life is and odds are, their answers will involve money in some form.…

Money—what’s love got to do with it?

You don’t usually find love and money in the same breath except in that simple, age-old saying, “Love of money is the root of all evil”. But there’s much more to that simple quote than meets the eye and it all revolves about how we bring love into lives.…

Stop, Look and Listen to YOU!

  I heard a Verizon Wireless ad the other day that ended with something like this:  because we all want more! Indirectly it was referring to a data plan, but directly it was trying to grab us in our unconscious buying place.…

I Could Have Had a V-8!

Suicide or Riot elicited a lot of heart-felt comments: “my heart aches for a world that communicates with their fingers rather than from their hearts, which cuts us off from the conversations that are crucial to our souls”, “support is everything… you’re not meant to do this alone” and “listen to others as we would want others to listen to us.”…

Suicide or Riot—you choose.

I struggled with which blog to write: the one about depression and Robin William’s suicide or the one about the riot after the shooting of yet another black youth (this as my bi-racial grandson heads down to the Deep South for college). …

Keeping Up With The Irresponsibles

John Legend and Colby Caillait are hitting a collective nerve with almost 20 million views in the first week of their new music videos. Legend’s You and I and Colbie Caillait’s Try,  shake you up,  question your values and toss you out of your comfort zone but for two different reasons.…

Feeling Financially Tapped, Emotionally Trapped?

Guest, Bob Wheeler, CPA, author of The Money Nerve joins host, Jane Honeck, to explore navigating the emotions of money. You’ll discover how to uncover your personal money nerve, the one that gets pinched every time you pay bills or watch a loved one waste their money.…

Summer Sighs

Every July we spend some extended time DownEast.  It’s our special place and our special time. I wrote this blog a few years ago but love repeating it every summer.  Hope you don’t mind….   I’ve been on a two week vacation in Robbinston, Maine, a very tiny town with no town center and only 500 or so people in almost 34 square miles.  …

Everyday Decisions: Another Perspective

“Isn’t that interesting” is an attitude I try to remember whenever I have strong feelings about something.  When I look at life with curiosity instead of judgment I can stay open to consider other perspectives.  One of my followers sent me his perspective of my recent Everyday Decisions blog. …