Voices

It's likely the stock market was due for a breather, and sometimes stocks go down just to go down, but there is no doubt the Chinese coronavirus provided the perfect backdrop for market sell-off over the past week. This is, of course, a financial...

In 2020, I predict that the housing market will…. keep us on our toes! What else is new? I wish I could predict the future. You would think that after 30 years in the real estate industry that I’d have the ability to see exactly what the market...

A dear friend and longtime client enjoys educating me on his world view, which varies in many ways from mine. He is clearly an avid reader and forwards material from lots of different publications into my email. His emails provide me some nice mental...

There’s an issue affecting my retiree clients more and more nowadays, and it’s an issue that really chaps the hide of many. The issue is Medicare premiums and more specifically the income adjusted related monthly adjustment amount, otherwise...

Alex Lesnik is just a regular guy – a 22 year old shift supervisor at Red Robin in Valparaiso, in fact. But he’s now also being called a local hero. During a shift at the gourmet burger restaurant, one of the servers ran...

I’ve been investing on behalf of other people for 25 years now. While, after keeping up with my daughter home from Purdue on the ski slopes for a couple days, I’m a little creaky this morning, it's sometimes hard for me to fathom that I’ve been...

As the year comes to end I wanted to tell you about the place I started volunteering at back in April. Every spring and fall I like to do reorganizing and sorting at my home. This timer I wanted to donate to a worthy cause and called Caring Place to...

It’s said that the ancient Babylonians may have been the first people to make New Year’s Resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. So now at least we know whom to blame when we’re waiting 45 minutes for the elliptical at the gym until March or so....

Looking back on the year at Valpo.Life, it’s truly amazing how many good things are constantly happening in our community. We’ve profiled hundreds of people for Life in the Spotlight articles, heard from our #1StuddentNWI students, and generally...

In 2009 my youngest child, Ethan, was born with Down Syndrome. As any family of a loved one with special needs will tell you, at the moment of awareness a whole new dimension of parenting opens and the learning curve is immediate and steep. A whole...