Retirement Reality: New Guideposts for Retirement Saving for Gen X, Gen Y and Millennials

Recently, the news has been reporting on the sad, but completely unsurprising finding that people are raiding their retirement accounts to pay credit card debts and other bills. Of course, taking any amount of money out of your retirement account for any reason jeopardizes your 

Skiing in Virginia? Yes Ma’am!

One of the best things about being a homeschooling family is that you can take advantage of any educational opportunity you want to. So, this January, my daughters will be skiing every Friday! I grew up in Salt Lake City, home of world-class skiing, host 

Taste Testing: GOOP’s Chia Seed Breakfast Pudding

Lately, a lot of improvements to our diet seem to come from Costco purchases. I buy a big bag of something healthy-looking at Costco thinking “We should eat that!” Then, of course, we don’t and it just sits there. That was the case for this 

In Praise of Flu Shots

As you have probably seen in the news, the flu season is particularly harsh this year. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Even here in Fredericksburg, hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Our family is not affected (knock wood) because we all got our flu shots this year. We 

“Recycling”

One of my goals this year is to try to minimize our food expenses. No, we are not going on a starvation diet and no we probably won’t make many significant changes to what we eat. I just want to see if we can make