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I just returned from my annual conference in sunny and hot (but it’s a dry heat haha) San Diego, California hosted by my broker dealer LPL Financial, LLC. We had meetings from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. for two days, and, yes, I attended all of them! We heard from experts in a variety of…

If you own individual stocks or a variety of stocks through mutual funds and/or exchange traded funds, the first part of the month of August has been interesting (to put it mildly). I have talked before about how the markets are near all-time highs. Since October 2023, most market indices have increased dramatically, but we…

I’m sure that when you woke up this morning you thought, “Today is going to be a great day! It’s National Dollar Day!” The first statement probably is not true. The second statement is. August 8 is National Dollar Day, and it commemorates the day in 1786 that Congress established the U.S. monetary system. The…

Construction has begun on our future primary residence at 1203 Constitution Drive in Port St. Joe. We are thankful to the Lord for the opportunity to build on the bay in such close proximity to Port St. Joe High School where Wendy teaches sixth grade history as well as near to pretty much everything else…

My family and I used to produce a television program called Cast and Call Outdoors. It aired on the WPGX Fox 28 station out of Panama City on Sunday mornings, and our 13-year-old daughter, Whitney, was the host. We traveled a good bit and filmed our hunting and fishing expeditions around the country. On an…

Happy Insurance Nerd Day! Yes, it’s a thing. While it may be important, there probably are not very many insurance nerds out there – except for me and a few others in Gulf and Franklin counties! Recently I have been working on a variety of insurance cases. The first is for a married couple around…

Prior to Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany on Oct. 31, 1517 to dispute papal power and the selling of indulgences, the Catholic Church required taxes be paid for the construction of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and St. Peter’s Church in Rome. “Robbing…

The three creatures named in the headline of this article all play a role in my life as a resident of Gulf County and a certified financial planner practitioner. All three can financially affect me positively or negatively, but I make decisions on a daily basis preventing them from physically or emotionally affecting me.  The…