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Reimagine Your Retirement Through Empowerment
Retirement should be a time in your life when you feel empowered to live how you want to. But, as retirement is associated with aging and growing older, some have negative perceptions around it. At the end of the day, the only thing we can control are our own attitudes...
Sports are back, but the pandemic is still here
A while back, I blogged about the plans that professional sports leagues developed to resume (or begin) their seasons during the pandemic. Generally, I think their efforts have been successful. Not perfect. But it's been a lot of fun to have sports back.  I'm going to review how each league...
Reverse Mortgage and Roth Conversions
By Steve Resch A new consideration for paying taxes incurred with a Roth Conversion could be the use of home equity with a reverse mortgage. This provides the liquidity that might not otherwise be available to reallocate a portion of your net worth into an income tax-free status, creating tax...
The Best Lessons We Learned During Recharge 2020
We think it’s pretty safe to say that this year has been a crazy roller coaster of an experience.  What’s up is down. What’s down is up. Nothing is predictable. Each day brings new surprises.  That’s all the more reason why we were so happy to forge ahead with our...
Empowering Your Life Through Retirement
Empower. When it comes to thinking about retirement or making the decision to move more directly into a retired lifestyle, there are few words that symbolize all of the aspirations, dreams, and hopes than that of empowerment.  If retirement signifies the culmination of a life’s work, then it’s also the...
What Spirituality & Purpose Mean to Me
As I continue to learn about aging through the Gerontology program at Portland (Oregon) Community College, I'm auditing a Care and Service Coordination course (there's a senior audit program that enables me to take classes practically for free).  The course deals with advocating for older adults' needs and/or desires as...