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As Houston continues to recover from the devastation of Harvey, if you've been paying attention, you also have gotten a bit of a refresher on the greatness of humanity when pushed against the wall. Aside from the outpouring of financial assistance flying towards...

All of our hearts are with Houston, and the areas surrounding that have been devastated in the past few days. It feels a bit like Katrina did, though the true measure of the disaster is still yet to be understood (as in New Orleans). What *is* clear is that many...

How was your TOTAL ECLIPSE experience? Did you get to see the totality? Did you travel for it? Would love to hear about your experience. Well, the world is still standing, even after all of the chaos that we've been experiencing as a nation. Social media remains an...

Open (and evil) racial violence in Charlottesville. Political turmoil all over Washington. An ever-inflating stock market. War drums from North Korea. TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE. Every summer, it seems we hit a point in which it feels like everything is fraying at the edges...

We work a great deal with asset sheets and financial numbers for our Birmingham clients. We're always on the hunt for ways that we can minimize tax burdens and be strategic about every available resource on behalf of the Birmingham families and people we serve. But...

Sometimes the best stories are the old ones. Variations of this yarn have floated around the culture for some years now, but in my opinion, that's because the lesson from it is so instructive. And I'll admit from the jump, that it's self-serving to some extent....

Working with my Birmingham clients' finances over the years has given me a bit of a crash course in human behavior. Often, I'm floored by the generosity I see displayed by many clients -- even those without significant means. Other times ... well, I think that we all...

Well, we are right in the thick of summer. It's hot. It's also tempting to just sit back and hit the cruise control for the next 6 weeks or so, and do nothing different, make no changes, plan no plans. Like many, you're probably averting your eyes from the national...

I have more to say about financial independence today (since I received some great feedback the last time I wrote about it). But before I get there, I'd like to speak some encouragement to you. A few people in Birmingham wrote me saying that they were feeling pretty...

I truly hope you enjoyed your Independence Day festivities. Perhaps you're still enjoying them? Interestingly, did you know that the Declaration of Independence was actually approved on July 2nd, and most of the delegates didn't sign it until August 2nd? While John...

With summer in full swing, for some of my Birmingham clients it means that the children are more "present" than they might otherwise be. The wallet might feel a little more leaky than normal, with summer camp expenses (and there *are* certain tax deductions for those,...

Last week I wrote about worry, and this week ... well, the summer is fully upon us, and as things get hotter, some days I come into the office and without the intensity of tax return filing season to keep me distracted, I occasionally find myself a little stuck. Can...