I’m not here to sugarcoat it—retirement is looking different for Generation X than it did for the Boomers. Some of us are on track with our savings, while others are still figuring out how to balance mortgages, kids’ tuition, aging parents, and planning for a future that feels uncertain. And with the economy shifting under […]
March 2025 – It’s happening again. The markets are in freefall, the suits are sweating, and the news anchors are cycling through their greatest hits of recession panic. This time, the crisis du jour is a combination of Wall Street’s economic slowdown fears, fresh signs of a weak U.S. economy, and a never-ending trade war […]
A Trade War Nobody Asked For In a move that shocked exactly no one, former President and current Reality TV Villain Donald J. Trump decided that the best way to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration was to slap a 25% tariff on all Mexican goods and a casual 10% levy on Chinese imports. Because […]
PART 1: The LGBTQ+ Crackdown There is a silence creeping across the country. A silence not born of stillness, but of forced erasure—the scraping out of identities, the extinguishing of lights that once flickered defiantly in public spaces. Laws are not passed with the thundering decree of dictators; they come softly, slipped between pages of […]
Trump’s Gaza Gamble: A High-Stakes Game of Monopoly My family has been knocking it out of the park when it comes to my birthday recently! This is in part due to a little bit of nagging and a lot a bit of love from hubby and the big kids. Knowing I love to play games, […]
The Vortex of It All I stood there with my husband. Late. It was 8 PM, and we had been waiting for two hours. I couldn’t quite figure out why this election was so emotional, even for me. Don’t get me wrong—if you knew me, you’d know me as one of the most emotional people […]