Author: Loire Kroeger

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, kicking off the holiday season! Soon, we’ll be diving into days filled with eating, drinking, and celebrating—temptations at every turn. If you are in charge of cooking or selecting the items for the meal here are seven (7) tips for making the healthiest meal. My final suggestion for staying…

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This chilling scene from The Beekeeper is a dramatic yet realistic example of a type of phishing scam directed at seniors: Eloise, a retired schoolteacher, is on her computer looking over charity accounts that she manages when a virus warning pops up. She calls the provided number, which unknowingly to her connects to a call center operated…

Medicare covers the bulk of your health care expenses after you turn 65. But Medicare’s rules can be confusing and mistakes costly. If you don’t make the right choices to fill in the gaps, you could end up with high premiums and big out-of-pocket costs. Worse, if you miss key deadlines when signing up for…

Decluttering your home is one of the best things you can do to help make your home safer and to make things easier for your loved ones. Organizing is about taking an honest look at what you have, keeping what you need, and letting go of the rest. We know this can be an overwhelming…

Some weeks are more consequential than others in shaping the market narrative, and the week of September 15th was one of them. The Fed delivered on what markets have been hoping for and anxiously anticipating over the past two years. Interest rates were cut by a larger-than-typical 0.5%, or 50 basis points, bringing it to…

If you are leaving your home to your children (as most of us do), take heed of this cautionary tale. In a Reddit thread a man recounts how when his mom died in 2018, she left him and his two siblings her house.  “My siblings wanted to sell the house and split the money,” the anonymous…