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Thanks for your Patience. Internet Service to be Installed July 17, 2012
My wife and I decided to move out of our summer cottage that is located in a rural northwestern North Carolina—Blue Ridge Country. One downside to the move is that I have not had Internet service in my home since the middle of May. I have attempted to keep posting to my web site using…
Read MoreAnticipating Mitigates Against Being in the Moment
I haven’t exactly ignored what my son, Greg Hohn, has been doing in his theatrical and academic work over the past several years. I have been to several performances of Transactors, and I accepted an invitation to sit in on two of his classes, but I never expected that the work he was doing would…
Read MoreBlending Family – Natural Parent’s Role Critical to Stepparent Success
#stepparent #stepchildren #blendingfamily As I wrote in my previous posting on the role of a stepparent, my wife Melinda and I are coming up on our 26th anniversary. We spent last Saturday evening with my stepson, Matt, and his wife Kristina at the North Carolina Jazz Festival, and I was reminded of how fortunate I…
Read MorePerfection is an Ideal Always Beyond Achievement.
My guest again this Sunday is my son, Greg Hohn, and as in his last post, the reader will find a biographical note at the end of the article. Reading through his piece about the pursuit of perfection, I am reminded of the saying about golf, “It Ain’t a game of perfect.” A poorly stuck…
Read MoreVariable Annuities — Great, But Be Careful
If you have researched variable annuities on your own, you know that I couldn’t cover everything in one blog on the subject. Variable annuities have their drawbacks. It is important to be aware of them. A variable annuity is a long-term investment, one that you will want to hold your entire lifetime. It’s the place…
Read MoreVairable Annuities — A Great Way to Protect a Retirement Portfolio
Thanks for all the questions about annuities. Yes, annuities are a valuable way to protect your retirement portfolio and secure an income for your survivors. But there are several things to be considered before buying one. There are two kinds of annuities; fixed and variable. Fixed annuities guarantee income to the owner and often the…
Read MoreEulogy for Nickie. When We Grieve the Passing of a Pet
#petcate #deathofpet #pet eulogy On Christmas morning, 1990, my wife entered the room with her present for me—Nickie, a beautiful black Persian kitten who lived with us as part of our family for nearly 18 years. He was a wonderful pet. To grieve his passing, I expressed my feelings of loss in a poem. …
Read MoreRetirement Planning for the Middle-income Household, One Step at a Time – Part II
In Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds, Matthew Wirth and Morrie Clay work with wealthy people with large sums set aside for retirement planning. As pointed out in the first article in this series, that is not the case for the middle-class American household. In the first post, we accomplished two important initial steps.…
Read MoreFinancial Advisor or Stockbroker. A Brief History.
In a recent interview, I was asked whether the 30 basis points charged against Mac McAllister’s $18,900,000 account in Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds was realistic. 30 basis points is three-tenths of a percent, or $56,700 each year for managing the account. An $18,900,000 account is not 18.9 times more work to manage…
Read MoreWelcome to my blog!
I welcome your comments or questions, personal or otherwise, about the craft of writing, my novel, my poetry, the creative process, and related subjects. The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. –Henry Moore, Sculptor Every day holds the opportunities to exercise creativity.…
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