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Financial Affairs

A year doesn’t promise you another year. Ten years doesn’t promise you another 10 years. Marriage is day by day. And financial infidelity is like an underground root system that spreads and positions over time- even if on the surface … Continue reading

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5 life skills teens need before college

The point is not to overload them, but to help them get ready for the next complicated, exciting, and challenging stage in their education. By the way, I also teach upperclassmen, and they all tell me that while they wished … Continue reading

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The Tree

My mother died at almost 95, and I needed to walk to the tree. That’s what my son would say after we planted a Texas redbud in Riverside Park 18 years ago. His father had died two years before, when … Continue reading

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Advice from a (Broken) Fortune Cookie

Why when people know better, they so often don’t do better. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively … Continue reading

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Marriage

I married beneath me – all women do. Lady Nancy Astor Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively … Continue reading

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