The things that draw us together when dating and getting to know each other are often the very things that cause conflicts a few years into marriage.  How do we embrace our differences? How can we love each other through the strengths and weaknesses our differences create? In our twenty plus years of marriage, finances have been always been an...

The other day the headlines read “Gold prices set record high”. I am all for investment when it gets me what I want. But if you are like me you didn’t jump on the gold band wagon soon enough and wish you had years ago. So I guess you can call me dumb for not investing sooner. But wait, I’m not all crazy. I actually did invest in something...

There’s been a lot of news lately about Sandra Bullock and her husband Jesse James. It saddens me that they are just the latest in a long, long line of celebrities who have had to live their marital issues in pubic.  I know that it is part of being famous, but it seems especially cruel to have your heartache splashed across the glossy pages of...