In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
When I first began my financial turnaround, I was open to trying anything to improve my financial situation. I signed up for online savings accounts at several different banks. I constantly strove to shave every penny I [...]

This is the eighteenth in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s investing classic The Intelligent Investor. Warren Buffett describes this book: “I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by far the [...]

Tax season is approaching and most people are starting to think about filing their tax returns (except some politicians like Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner).
Tax Tips and Resources
We’ve been putting together some tax tips to help make it easier for you to prepare and file your taxes this year and wanted to review what we’ve [...]

This week was a much quieter and less stressful week than the last. We had a winter storm move in from the north and blanketed our mountain area with 3-4 inches of snow and it was beautiful. We hunkered down and enjoyed just spending some time at home relaxing.
One thing I did realize [...]