Your host will be on vacation from July 10-17. (Note: The beaches where I will be don't look ANYTHING like this.) Posts, if any, will be sparse.

Happy Easter!

We have small children in this family. For them, Easter is a lot about the above. Easter egg hunts, baskets and candy. It's also about family and friends and Easter dinners. We'll have all of that today and it will be a great one. Hope yours is too.

Winter Break

Okay, so I won't be playing PineHills this weekend but a man's gotta dream! Back on Wednesday.

Out With the Old

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

This is not a blog for these kind of ruminations, but I tend to think the ground shifted beneath us in 2009. I believe that the 2010s will be a decade of great change, but not in the manner that most people once expected. We have some serious issues to work through as a nation. At the same time, the changes occurring around us will affect our ability to control our own destiny.

There is a tremendous amount of hard work to do and our leaders are faced with many, many difficult decisions. You must take control at the individual level and your personal financial plan is one aspect of that. Let's work on that together in 2010.

Merry Christmas

Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward All Men. Merry Christmas All!

Arrival

And a wintry white arrival it was.

Amid boxes, papers and general disarray, my family and I are "settled" in our new house in Wisconsin and occasionally venturing out to brave the colder winters here.

A Hiatus

I am moving my family back to the Midwest. I grew up there, as did my wife, and we have much family there. It will be nice to have family close.

We have enjoyed our time in New England. It was too short. I made some good friends here. All my family did. These friends will be missed.

I am taking a hiatus to coordinate the move. For about a week I will not have access to my usual tools. (I know, you CAN blog remotely, but that's not for me.) Then the holidays will be upon us. I'll pick this up again on the other end. Posting will be even lighter than normal.

Mark

A Break In The Action

My family and I are moving some 1200 miles from the Northeast and back to our roots (and family) in the Midwest. Packing, house-hunting and the wind up of various activities and commitments leaves little time for blogging this week. We are sad to leave our friends but excited about the new community that we will build there!

See you next with a post about the value (long term of course!) of the stock market!