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Looking To The Past In Order To UnderStand The Present: Family Finance History

 
This month the PF Bloggers are writing about Family Finance History in our monthly writing project.
Looking back I would say that my immediate family has been pretty responsible with money.  My mom was and is an avid saver and actually bought her home with 20% down a few years ago in NYC.  Yah, the responsible [...]

Thoughts On Managing a Parent’s Illness and Possible Continuing Care Options

photo credit: tempophage

Over the last few days I’ve been forced to think about possible continuing care options given my father in law’s recent stroke and seizure over the weekend. We were not prepared to deal with a major illness in that it required care after leaving the hospital. As adult children the thought [...]