by Marie Burns | Nov 6, 2024 | Estate Planning, Mindset
Role reversal, whether it is as a parent/child or even grandparent/grandchild, never quite feels right. Becoming the “let me help you” person in the relationship is not how it likely went for most of your life. But with aging, that sometimes changes or needs to change...
by Marie Burns | Oct 24, 2024 | Estate Planning
When staying in a hotel/motel, when did we transition from having an actual person call your room in the morning as your courtesy wake-up call to now having a computerized message on the other end of the line? Of course, with our over-the-top bells and whistles now...
by Marie Burns | Apr 10, 2024 | Estate Planning, Suddenly Single
Sorry, if you started reading in order to pick up some recipes or meal ideas, I may have misled you. But now that I have your attention, are you open to thinking about discussing Death over Dinner? What!?! Who chose to write about this topic and tie it to a relaxing...
by Marie Burns | Feb 1, 2024 | Estate Planning, Marriage, Suddenly Single, Widow
In this month of “love” I think it’s appropriate to share a blog from Pastor Jack, from Avondale Baptist Church in Arizona. He wrote a blog for his congregation a few years ago about how to love your wife even after you’re gone and I requested his permission to share...
by Marie Burns | Nov 2, 2023 | Financial Wellness, Financially Organized, Retirees
I don’t remember what age it started, but, at one point, the grandma I visited the most started ending each visit, phone conversation or otherwise, with a comment like, “Well, if I’m still around, I will see you next time.” At first, I didn’t give it much thought but...
by Marie Burns | Jul 27, 2023 | Financial Advocate, Mindset
I am curious what caught your eye on this article, the picture or the title? We’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I think that applies here. When I first saw this sign, my brain did one of those fill-in-the-blank tricks. You know when your brain...
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 | 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 3, 2022 | Estate Planning
What do you do when you inherit a mess? Where do you start? How do you move forward? Part of one woman’s solution, Heather Parker, was to become an estate planning attorney to help others avoid the same mess she experienced in her family. Most of us can’t choose that...
by Marie Burns | Mar 11, 2022 | Empty Nesters, Estate Planning
We humans have an understandable tendency to take action on things that are important to us in the moment. And until we have something happen in our lives that remind us that our risk of mortality is 100%, we often leave the “when I’m gone” wishes on the back burner....
by Marie Burns | Nov 22, 2021 | Estate Planning, Financial Advocate, Financially Organized
In October, National Estate Planning Awareness Month, I spoke with an estate planning attorney, Amanda Pyper Ruiz at Same Day Wills, who shared some great tips and things to think about when considering the will vs trust question or updating a trust. With her...
by Marie Burns | Nov 8, 2021 | Estate Planning
Have you ever had a goal you couldn’t seem to get accomplished but then when there was a special event added to the calendar, it somehow got done? Losing weight before a wedding, completing a home project before company comes to stay, or finishing a gift before the...
