My personal interior design style is inspired by many factors. I gravitate toward peaceful art with soft colors, textures of fringe, warm leathers, mixing patterns and warm woods against airy backgrounds. If possible, I also love to make the interior space complement the home’s exterior style, its age and setting. I like the choices inside to reflect the overall character of the home. For example, you would feel surprised and confused if you walked into a cute bungalow that had charming details on the outside and modern, simplistic or sleek finishes on the inside. I would want to bring that outside feeling indoors.
This season, clothing trends and styles for kids are both basic and unique! For example, grade-schoolers will love graphic tees and jeans with embroidery or patches which can be new and trendy. However, as always, kid’s clothing for this age group needs to withstand quite a bit of wear and tear! With this in mind, we recommend sticking to cotton T-shirts and classic jeans that won’t break the bank when they need to be replaced, especially with the speed at which kids grow out of things.
When Billy Durant took a call from Ben Briscoe, President of the Maxwell-Briscoe Company, a chain reaction started that has yet to end. That simple conversation and the in-person meeting that followed at Buick planted the seed of consolidation in Durant’s mind that would lead to the formation of General Motors and the triumph of Flint.
The title of a musical from the early 1960s called “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off,” referred to a time in life when everything seemed chaotic and going too fast. While I don’t really want to get off the world, I am genuinely concerned over the speed with which things are getting out of control today – especially technology, national politics, climate change and the economy, to name a few.
With inflation slowing to 3.1% as of writing this column, Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve are likely to get credit for taming the 40-year high inflation we have experienced over the last couple years. Similarly, Paul Volker and the Federal Reserve of the early 1980s got credit for “breaking the back” of the 1970s inflation. What this ignores is that the Federal Reserve created the 1970s inflation, just like they created the more recent inflation. Crediting the Fed for “fixing” inflation means crediting them for fixing a problem they themselves created.
Any time you drive a car in a foreign country, it’s a gamble. It can either be easy, straightforward and enjoyable, or absolutely disastrous.
Since the beginning of civilization, people have been telling, writing and enjoying stories. Dramas, comedies, mysteries, epic poems and more have entranced us with dreams beyond our tangible world. We all have memories from our earliest days of parents or teachers reading the simplest books to us while our eyes grew in wonder at the characters and colorful pictures. Classic children’s books such as The Poky Little Puppy, Where the Wild Things Are, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and countless others got us interested (and many of us hooked) on the tales crafted by our storytellers.
Inflation, which can be described as the steady increase in the prices of goods and services, is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent times. As the cost of living rises, individuals and families must adapt their financial strategies to mitigate the impact of inflation. In this article, we will explore the current state of inflation, understand its implications and provide valuable strategies for safeguarding your hard-earned money.
For the past 54 years, not an August has gone by without my thoughts drifting to the Woodstock Music Festival, and the hippie movement in general. I wanted to go to Woodstock on that August weekend in 1969 and to this day, I am still bristling that I couldn’t.
The Federal Reserve has increased the federal funds rate from 0% to 5% to reduce the inflation they created during the pandemic. The federal funds rate is the interest rate set through monetary policy and is at a 16-year high. Members of the Open Market Committee, the committee that sets monetary policy, anticipate at least two more 0.25 percentage point rate increases. This would push this interest rate to 5.75%, a 23-year high.
This summer, my fiancé and I had two big trips planned: one to Spain to celebrate our birthdays – a long-anticipated jaunt across the Atlantic, an escape from our normal lives and an introduction to international travel for my life partner.
Usually, the only time the word “resolution” enters my mind is at around 8:30 pm on December 31. I try to come up with a sweeping life change I will make over the next 365 days. It is always a worthwhile pursuit, like losing weight or being kind to everyone. You know the drill. By February 1, my lofty goals collide with donuts or bad drivers. I declare myself a failure and pledge to give it another go next year.
