Christmas Reflections – What Are You Grateful for This Year?
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: Driving home from the grocery store this past Sunday evening, I was struck by the beauty of all the houses decorated for Christmas. I stopped my car in front of one of the homes, and sat there, just soaking in the heart-warming display. I became reflective just looking at […]
Put a Shine on Your Shoes and in Your Heart
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with your families and friends! The other day, I was complaining to a friend that my regular shoe shine guy had been missing in action for a couple of weeks, now. My friend, having listened, responded, “You do know you can […]
What Will You Be Drinking This Thanksgiving?
Happy Thanksgiving to Our Valued Clients and Friends: I am sure all of you have the food portion of your Thanksgiving menus all planned out – but have you selected what you’ll be drinking with your feast? I decided that I wanted to prepare some charcoal-grilled oysters as an appetizer at my parent’s house on […]
Be Great, Be Remarkable!
I’ve recently been reading about being remarkable, and it has got me thinking. Work life and personal life, both are too short to settle for being just good enough to get by. To accept “good enough” is to cut yourself off from your own potential for greatness. There’s a concept that I have mentioned in […]
Free Days and Why They Matter
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: As most of you already know, I am an adamant believer in the value of free days. These are days you take to get away from your daily work and routines, turn off phones, don’t check emails, and open yourself to recreative new and familiar experiences, as well as […]
Should You Play Trick or Treat with This Stock Market?
Yes, the stock market is down. As of October 29, 2018, the S&P 500 was down 9.54%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 8.50% and the NASDAQ was down 12.03% for the month of October. Some factors impacting the current market correction are: GDP The GDP growth appears to be slowing. In the second […]
How to Save on Your Taxes Through Investment in Qualified Opportunity Zones
On October 19, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Department of the Treasury released the first set of proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Subchapter Z—Opportunity Zones On the same day, the IRS also issued Revenue Ruling 2018-29 relating to the application of the Opportunity Zone tax incentives to improvements of real property. Investors […]
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; . . . – John Keats, Endymion Monday night, Drew Brees – of our own New Orleans Saints – set a new record for career-total passing yards, overtaking Peyton Manning! Drew Brees is a thing of beauty. […]
The Hidden Brain
This past weekend, my wife Jennifer and I paid a visit to our daughter, Meghan, an incoming freshman at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Since accommodations in Danville are slim pickings, we stayed in Lexington, 40 miles away. This made for significant time spent driving through the rolling hills of Kentucky. I used the time […]
Thoughts on Hurricane Florence
With Hurricane Florence coming toward the Carolina coast late last week, its ultimate path uncertain, I rescheduled a trip to Atlanta last Wednesday. My fear was that Delta would move their planes out of their Atlanta hub and harm’s way and I might be stuck in Atlanta for the weekend. I had made big plans […]