My wife and I came back from our trip to Kenya. We achieved our primary goal of climbing Mount Kenya. My wife was able to get on Nelion and Batian, the highest two peaks in Mount Kenya. According to ...
2019 Social Security COLA
[Updated on October 11, 2018.] The official announcement for 2019 Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) came out. The COLA in 2019 will be larger than in 2018, but it's actually bad ...
Social Security Claiming Strategy Calculators Compared
[Updated with new calculator. Removed calculators that are no longer available.] Mike Piper is the author of the book Social Security Made Simple. In addition to explaining how Social Security ...
You Can’t Eat Your House. Or Can You?
The purpose of my recent absence was to look into a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) for my aging mom. In a CCRC, residents start with independent living, and as their need for assistance ...
Plan It and Update It
Note from the editor: This is a guest post from long-time reader KD. KD contributed Looking At the Big Financial Picture back in 2012. I also interviewed KD in Lifestyle Design: Choose Where You Live. ...
Maintaining and Executing An Estate Plan
You make your will and trust. The real test for whether they worked or not only comes after you die. Between now and then you have to keep your will and trust updated. Reader Steve kindly shared his ...