Financial Planning
Jennipher Lommen
Treading Carefully

Finding ways to remain calm and focused when chaos abounds is a challenge. I practice every day with varying degrees of success. What I have found is that the practice itself provides comfort. It is something to anchor me as I tread carefully in this uncertain world.

Treading Carefully
Financial Housekeeping
Jennipher Lommen
Practice, Patience, Progress

Taking time to reflect on the year helps me to see through the haze of current events and crises of the moment.

Practice, Patience, Progress
Financial Housekeeping
Jennipher Lommen
Nothing Like a Wildfire to Get Your Attention

I am a planner by nature. Once the immediate shock of an unfolding disaster became clear, I needed to do some real-time planning and preparing. It was in this moment that I realized my plan was not as tight as it should be. As the coming days and weeks unfold, my community will be facing loss, grief, coming together and rebuilding. I hope that as we do this difficult work, we will all take steps to ensure we stay safe, care for each other and get ourselves as prepared as we can for the next challenge.

Nothing Like a Wildfire to Get Your Attention
Financial Planning
Jennipher Lommen
Back to Basics with a Pandemic as a Guide

In my role as a mother, I have spent extra hours stocking the pantry, wiping down surfaces, planting a vegetable garden and filling up our medicine cabinet with all the nutritional and herbal remedies I know to help my family build our immune systems, combat stress, get good sleep and fight off illness should it strike. These activities help me maintain a small sense of control in a time of intense uncertainty. In my role as a financial planner, I find myself working with clients to do the same thing: focus on what you can control.

Back to Basics with a Pandemic as a Guide
Meridith Cook
Homeschooling High School - Part 2

One difficulty many homeschoolers encounter is how to show mastery over a subject. Ok, my child read the book. Can they find a way to show that they understood the material, digested it, made it their own? There are many ways of doing this that are NOT writing a book report!

Homeschooling High School - Part 2

Saving

Back to Basics with a Pandemic as a Guide

Back to Basics with a Pandemic as a Guide

In my role as a mother, I have spent extra hours stocking the pantry, wiping down surfaces, planting a vegetable garden and filling up our medicine cabinet with all the nutritional and herbal remedies I know to help my family build our immune systems, combat stress, get good sleep and fight off illness should it strike. These activities help me maintain a small sense of control in a time of intense uncertainty. In my role as a financial planner, I find myself working with clients to do the same thing: focus on what you can control.

Tending the Financial Garden

Tending the Financial Garden

Gardening and financial planning have a few things in common.  In developing a financial plan, it is important to lay the groundwork, build a strong foundation, tend it along the way and try not to skip any steps.  Also like gardening, if mistakes are made, or things get neglected, there are ways to bring things around.