by taaginc | Jan 4, 2017 | Personal Stories
I was recently cleaning my grandmother’s house and I came across her passport. I flipped through the pages to find the only stamp in the book. It was from a trip to Ireland she took about five years ago. It made me smile. I flashed back to us sitting at her dining...
by taaginc | Nov 27, 2013 | Budgeting, Financial Education
‘Tis the season for giving – your credit card number to pay for your holiday gift purchases. The average American will spend just over $1,000 this year on gift giving, up 20% from 2012. With Thanksgiving falling on the latest possible day in November,...
by taaginc | Jun 19, 2012 | Budgeting
Over Father’s Day weekend, when my dad and I were alone for a few minutes, he brought up a subject that had obviously been weighing on his mind. He said he realized he and mom live 2 ½ hours away from my brother, sister and I, and if anything were to happen to either...
by taaginc | May 15, 2012 | Financial Education
(from Carl Richard’s New York Times’ Bucks blog, 4/16/2012 – click here for the original post. Carl is a Certified Financial Planner in Park City, Utah. His sketches are archived on the Bucks blog and on his personal Web site, www.BehaviorGap.com.)...
by taaginc | Feb 1, 2010 | Personal Stories
At a party given by a billionaire hedge fund manager, Kurt Vonnegut informed his friend, Joseph Heller, that their host made more money in a single day then Heller had earned from his popular novel, Catch-22, over his entire lifetime. Heller responded, “Yes, but I...
