(A photo from a previous adventure!) Traveling to Bali and Singapore is in my plans for this week. What an opportunity; I am beyond grateful. When it comes to opportunities, I have an idea why some of us are enthusiastic souls, and some of us derail chance after chance. However, I am hardly the cautious […]

By Irene Caswell  When your son reaches a landmark 40th birthday, how does it affect your relationship as a parent? In my experience, when you also share a birthday, it has a tendency to mark the passing of time in larger print, and even more so, I found, this year. Time to Recalibrate The many stages […]

One day my ultimate concierge,  said out of the blue,“Let’s take  our grands on a trip.” To be perfectly honest I was as shocked as I was thrilled because for as long as I can remember I wanted to travel with grandchildren. Since the trip was his idea and I know my husband, I wasted no […]

By Billy and Akaisha Kaderli Billy and I like to keep informed about the topic of retirement from the perspective of money managers and those in the financial fields. Many of these pieces proclaim that you must save enough in your investments to throw off 80% of your current annual salary so that you can afford […]

Can you imagine three monkeys leaping onto your back as you walk through a park in Agra, India, next door to the Taj Mahal? As I witnessed this scene I hysterically rummaged through my backpack, grabbed my whistle and blew as loud as I could to scare them off. They fled. My husband, the victim of the attack, was so grateful that […]