Okay, I’m not betting the ranch; you need only read my posts about paying off the mortgage to know that. Nor am I desperate other…
!!! UPDATED IN 2023: PLEASE READ MY 2023 POST FOR AN IMPORTANT UPDATE !!! On January 1st, 2022, Arizona’s homestead exemption will rise from $150,000…
Rare is the day that I can walk around my Sam Hughes neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona without encountering a homeless person. It’s not Skid Row…
A 529 plan is a savings plan designed to help pay for education. Here are some 529 plan basics: Contributions can be tax deductible on…
“Would you like another margarita?” the El Charro waitress inquired. “I’ll have a Dos Equis lager, please,” I said to the waitress. “We only have…
Road Closed. My family and I had driven to the eastern outskirts of Tucson to a dirt road called Redington Pass. We needed to take…
It’s May in Tucson and the thermometer is regularly creeping into triple digits by early afternoon. Knowing that the heat would be uncomfortable later today,…
Hygge, pronounced “hoo-guh” is a Danish word that derives from a sixteenth-century Norwegian term, hugga, meaning “to comfort” or “to console.” It is related to…
In 2019, my major financial temptations were buying a new car for my wife, installing a swimming pool at our home or buying a home…
The father and his little girl of maybe five years sat together on the chairlift. He had his protective arm around her in her pink…