Have I Convinced You to Plan a Trip to the Finger Lakes Yet?!

This is the third time I’ve been up to the Finger Lakes region, staying once on Seneca and twice on Keuka. I’m nowhere near an expert there (yet), but every time I go there’s places I want to go back to on the next trip. I figured I’d name my current Top 10 for anyone…

Word Of The Week: Faith

I feel that we need more faith in this country. Faith in the greater good and faith in each other. I have lots of friends/family/close people in my life that do not necessarily believe in God the way that I do. And that’s OK. But as a parent, raising kids in this country, seeing the…

Word of the Week: Optimism

It’s hard to be optimistic right now. We live in a world full of uncertainty, fear, hurt, pain. I’ve all but stopped going on social media or turning on the news – it just feels like too much. And then I feel slightly ashamed to have simply put my head down to do the job…

Word of the Week: Resilient

I finally admitted to myself that I’m feeling a bit depressed by all this coronavirus talk and quarantining. Like so many, I feel the stress, I miss having the outlets I’m used to, I’m tired of seeing people through Zoom and masks. And the fact that there isn’t exactly an end date to this “new…

Word of the Week: Gratitude

I want to take a pause from all my investment and financial planning commentary to breathe a bit of gratitude into our lives. These remain very difficult times, as the unknowns of a post Covid-19 world still look murky at best. When will a vaccine come? When can I get my kids out of the…