When it comes to daily market news, most coverage focuses on familiar U.S. benchmarks like the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. That emphasis can make it easy to overlook opportunities beyond our borders — but doing so can mean missing a meaningful portion of the global ...

Our youngest daughter, and last child at home, graduated high school, and moved away from us, all within the span of two hours this past week. Twenty-eight years of raising children, and in the span of minutes … “POOF!” … Shelley and I found ourselves staring at each other across our ...

In a season where a mix of winter and spring suddenly gave way to summer, I found myself gently dangling my hand off the side of my kayak in a backwater connecting two lakes. It was a Memorial Day weekend tradition for me to fish the mud-bottomed stop just downstream from the cabin, and a place ...

I was recently asked to speak at a meeting of a secret society. I was surprised when they invited me as it’s widely known that I can’t keep a secret. My wife and I went to an innocuous building located in the midst of a sleepy college town. We descended a set of concrete stairs that led ...

A while ago I read a book that has always flowed through me. The name of the book is “A River Runs Through It” by Norman Maclean. It's a story about the author's growing up in rural Montana, and his relationship with his brother. Although different in some ways, they usually bonded over ...

The long-awaited summertime is here. We hope you are getting plenty of chances to get outside and enjoy the sunshine and warm temperatures. Yet this wish comes with a word of caution. Because we’re often more active and out and about during the summer, we face the risk of seasonal injuries ...