Are you still a kid at heart? There is no shortage of surveys to indicate not all adults want to give up on the idea of an old, platinum-haired guy, dressed in a red pantsuit, capable of sliding down a chimney showing up at their homes. This idea speaks to people’s desire to believe in the benevolence…

Declared clinically dead at two years of age. — I had an incredible fear of water. It stemmed from an incident when I was two years old. My father was a bush pilot when I was born. One Saturday morning, my siblings and I were visiting his base. As happened during that era, adults talked inside and children played…

In the space of four years, I was a widow In the space of four years, we married, had our daughter, had our son, and then, my husband died. A tragedy. Someone’s mistake caused our world to collapse. Caught in the aftermath, I struggled to survive. After an all-night vigil by my husband’s bedside, a social worker ushered us into a conference…

When is a free pizza not free? — Sometimes I fubar technology The other night I tried to place an online order, but I couldn’t get the app to accept my card information. Nor did it accept the second card I used. Nothing was wrong with either card because I used one in-person to pay for my meal at the same place…

If you do not create a plan for your free time, someone else will. Planning for retirement is a daunting task, and once you figure out your finances, the next question should be, what will you do with your time? It is no different than when your supervisor used to ask where you saw yourself in 5 years. …