THE BLOG: At the Threshold
There is a particular feeling that arrives after a major transition, once the immediate crisis has passed and the dust has begun to settle. It is the feeling of being behind. Behind where you thought ...
The decision rarely arrives as a decision. It arrives as a series of small adjustments. You leave early to make an appointment. You turn down the project that requires travel. You move to part time, j...
Some financial transitions have a name everyone recognizes. Divorce. Widowhood. Inheritance. They come with sympathy cards and casseroles and people who know, more or less, what to say.
Then there is...
Most financial advice is built for a person who does not exist. A person with no history, no fear, no grief, no competing obligations to people she loves. A person who hears a sound recommendation and...
Caregiving is one of the most common financial transitions a woman will move through, and one of the least discussed. We talk about divorce. We talk about widowhood. We rarely sit down and name what i...
There is a particular kind of financial disorientation that comes with receiving a significant inheritance. It is not what most people expect.
People expect relief, or gratitude, or a clear sense of ...
There is a reason the first year after losing a spouse is the hardest. It is not just grief, though grief is enormous. It is the combination of grief and an unrelenting stream of financial decisions a...
