10 Unique Ways to Celebrate a Birthday

Not everyone enjoys celebrating their birthday with a traditional birthday party. If that’s you, or someone you love, we have some non-traditional ideas for how to celebrate the day you were born that might pique your interest. Take a trip with friends. Why not get a few friends together and go somewhere you’ve always wanted…

Easter Around the World

Easter is an annual holiday that’s celebrated around the world in many different countries by many different cultures. In America, moms deck out the house with favorite Easter decorations, send out Easter greeting cards while children look forward to colorful Easter baskets filled with candy and toys, Easter egg hunts, parades, and new outfits. But…

Puppy Principles

Everybody knows that there’s no love quite like puppy love. Puppies are trusting, loving, joyous, affectionate, playful, full of life, energy, and adventure. Puppies love to run, splash around in mud puddles, and play with other puppies and any human who will give them a few moments of their time and attention. Puppies remind us…

First-Quarter Budget Check Up

Tax time is here, that time of year when we receive our W-2’s, 1099’s, interest income statements, and other financial forms and prepare to do our tax returns or pay to have them done. Tax preparation may be the only time of year you gather all your financial information together in one place, which makes…

Have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March 17th we will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in honor of the patron saint of Ireland who is credited for bringing Christianity to the country. Irish legend tells of how Saint Patrick (who was British, not Irish) used the shamrock as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity when first introducing Christianity to Ireland in the…