It’s only a little intimidating to jump into writing the Friday Brief with the likes of Geoff, Jared, and Ryan. I figured the best way to dive into this routine is by way of introduction. So, hi, I’m Ellen, the newest team member at Beacon....
Last week on my walk into work, I noticed that some of my neighbors had already put out their Halloween decorations. I'm all for being prepared but mid-September seems a bit early to roll out the fake spider webs and half-buried skeletons. To each their...
A little over a year ago I wrote a Brief about the tax plan Joe Biden was proposing during his campaign to be the Democrat nominee for President. Here we are, 13 short month later, and the White House has unveiled their new "American Families...
On Tuesday at lunch time, I walked into a store in North Hills called Bonobos (or, per their own signage, BONOBOS). Now, this BONOBOS place is ostensibly a store for men, a place you could purchase, for example, a white dress shirt. The mistaken notion...
I've been a financial advisor for many years. In fact, it's the only job I've had since graduating from college with a degree in finance in 1995. However, prior to that I wore many hats. During my teenage and college years I worked as a...
One morning earlier this week I was outside with Olly waiting on him to do his, ahem, "business." I was running up against the time the kids and I leave for school. Nervous, I glanced down at my watch while thinking to myself, "There's got to...
I was not a rich kid, but my kids are rich kids, and that's kind of a weird place to be. My two boys went to the beach for a week twice this summer (and I did too...
My good friend, Sallie, is passionate about cycling. She's already ridden her bike 1,977 miles this year and she'll probably ride over 2,000 more before we ring in the new year. A few weeks ago, I went for a ride with her on the Durham...
Last week, Jared wrote about the future, specifically, the risk that the reality of the future we imagine might disappoint us: "You may fail to reach your goals, no matter how hard you work. Or, perhaps worse, you may reach your goals and find them...
“But where is man to go? Something awkward, at any rate, can be noticed in him each time he achieves some such goal. Achieving he likes, but having achieved he does not quite like, and that, of course, is terribly funny. In short, man is...
