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Sudden Wealth
We have all dreamed about it. What would I do if I won the lottery? Mr. George and his family in Rifle get to answer that question in a big way. For the rest of us, we may be the recipients of other financial
Continue readingDon’t Disinherit Your Loved Ones
We are all terminal. While we know that death is a part of life, many times it catches us off guard. Even when it has been embraced and prepared for, the emotional gamut runs wide and deep. From the financial
Continue readingTrue Financial Freedom
Winding down our celebratory weekend of freedom, let’s not be remiss to consider the essence of true financial freedom and its’ deceptive twin. We can easily fall prey to the false notion that “the
Continue readingAre you an Unintentional Philanthropist?
We are a generous country. We give for a multitude of reasons to a myriad of causes. According to the recent Giving USA annual report, total charitable giving increased by 4.4% to $335.17 billion in
Continue readingDo You Go With The Flow?
The rivers are rising with spring runoff. I’m excited for boating season to start. Our family has been on the river in various incarnations of plastic tubing since my childhood. We purchased inflatable
Continue readingLets Get Emotional
We have all been working on taxes. We get everything into nicely ordered piles and fill out the organizer our accountants send us. It looks so neat on paper – the dollars and cents laid out on
Continue readingShifting Tax Pain Into Tax Gain
We have had over a year to adjust to the tax changes that took effect on January 1, 2013. Most of us have filed out 2013 returns and felt a bit of the pain of those changes. Did you experience the
Continue readingReading your Money Scripts
Our twenty-one year old daughter returned to the Roaring Fork Valley after completing her studies in Australia and sojourn around Europe. We got to see her briefly as she made her way back over to the
Continue readingMoney Harmony for couples
Love is in the air. Chocolate, flowers or a candle lit dinner are historically the expression of choice, but what about the idea of creating financial harmony as an expression of true commitment that
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