Question: I just received correspondence from my insurance company informing me of my 2024 insurance is discontinuing and won’t be offered in 2025. What should I do?. Answer: Happy Insurance Season! It is September 30th and your plan is required to inform you what it is doing for 2025. We ...

I recently discovered that October is National Cheese Month. I must admit I do like cheese. There are so many kinds of cheese that it is impossible to list them all. In my refrigerator now I have mozzarella, pepper jack cheese, American cheese, sharp cheese, and dill Havarti. I use them all ...

Clara (name changed for confidentiality) had been a client years ago. She presented a remarkable story. She was a married woman with a loving husband and one boy and one girl. She lived a long distance away and came to appointments when the children were in school. She was employed part-time ...

With civil war looming, Abraham Lincoln invoked the “better angels of our nature” in his first inaugural address. Lincoln, a Republican, wouldn’t recognize his party today. The GOP has moved so far to the right that it’s off the map, in some dark, dystopian country where angels fear ...

I just received my fourth mailing from former President Trump asking for money. This one included a certificate hoping I would join him in a new “Lyin’ Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe Biden Target List.” This list would be “my badge of courage and honor” which I could frame, if I want ...

CHAUTAUQUA—An organization annually invites a speaker to Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua doesn’t select the speaker. The organization does. It’s legally separate from Chautauqua, and its principal location isn’t in Chautauqua. Following the 2023 speaker, this column reviewed the ...