by Marie Burns | Jul 12, 2023 | Suddenly Single, Widow
Life is Short I don’t feel like there is a magic age but eventually, we realise how short life really is. Maybe it’s just more of an awareness as we keep journeying through these milestone “new decade” birthdays, like turning 60. Recent Widows We are halfway through...
by Marie Burns | Jun 15, 2023 | Marriage
Wedding Season In my mind, Spring marks the beginning of wedding season. Although realistically I know weddings can be any month of the year. I remember in 2020, I was talking to a wedding venue owner here in Arizona and asking how he could possibly reschedule 67...
by Marie Burns | Jun 1, 2023 | Estate Planning, Financial Wellness
I read a recent headline: Marriages don’t fall apart, they drift apart. I am not a marriage counselor but I serve as a money counselor so my brain immediately went to the fact that the same can be said of our money life. Our finances rarely fall apart overnight, it is...
by Marie Burns | May 19, 2023 | Mindset
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like I see women wearing hats much anymore. As a child, we once lived with my grandmother for about six months while our house was being built and my favorite thing to do was play in her hat closet. Grandma’s Hats After she...
by Marie Burns | Apr 20, 2023 | Financial Advocate, Financial Wellness, Financially Organized
An Overdue Requirement Good news! We are getting close to half of our states here in the US that will begin to require a personal finance course in order to graduate from high school. Yeah! At the same time, I’m also wondering why we haven’t done this long ago? Making...
by Marie Burns | Apr 6, 2023 | Financial Wellness, Financially Organized
I don’t know about you, but lately I find myself frustrated with technology to the point of finally laughing out loud and throwing up my hands saying “What’s next!?!” It’s been a slew of things lately: my phone has been saying for weeks that it will be doing an update...
by Marie Burns | Mar 7, 2023 | Mindset
One of the most fascinating analogies I read in the past few years that truly helped me to understand the importance of something is that sleep is like a dishwasher cycle in our brain. The Dishwasher Cycle If we interrupt it or cut it short or stop and start it, we...
by Marie Burns | Jan 28, 2023 | Mindset
A definite way of deciding something. Chemistry class is where I first heard the term “litmus test” used where it is literally a test (usually a paper strip) that determines if a solution is acidic. In politics, a litmus test is a question asked of candidates to...
by Marie Burns | Dec 21, 2022 | Gift Giving, Grandparents
I have evolved over the years in my thinking around gift-giving to children as well as grandchildren. Perhaps you have, too? It’s a blessing that in many situations our grandchildren don’t “need” anything that their parents can’t already provide for them. Our children...
by Marie Burns | Nov 28, 2022 | Financial Wellness, Mindset
Have you ever been so angry or upset with someone and then realized that they either had no idea what upset you OR they acted like they either didn’t care or didn’t notice that you were upset? Holding onto that extreme negativity and resentment and feeling like your...
by Marie Burns | Nov 14, 2022 | Estate Planning, Financially Organized
After sharing Part 1 and Part 2 of the Inheriting a Mess and scary stories series, and since I keep receiving comments, emails, and shared stories from readers and other women I have talked with recently, I thought it only fitting to finish with one more blog on the...
by Marie Burns | Oct 31, 2022 | Estate Planning, Financially Organized
What better time to complete this topic series – Terror of Inheriting a Mess – than October, National Estate Planning Awareness Month!?! Based on your feedback and sharing from Part 1, this blog shares stories, tips and encouragement for those who have...
