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Artificial intelligence has quickly become a popular source of financial guidance...

AI Doesn’t know You, But It’s Advising You Anyway Artificial intelligence has quickly become a popular source of financial guidance, with tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini increasingly used for budgeting, investing, tax questions, and retirement planning, especially among younger generations. The appeal is understandable: AI....

There's been a shift in the workforce...

Experience In Demand: The Aging Workforce If your team is adding a new employee this year, don’t be surprised if your newest coworker remembers the screech of dial-up internet or the thrill of an AOL “You’ve got mail” alert. The average age of new hires in 2025 climbed to around 42, up from 40½ in 2022 and 40 in 2016, according to ...

In October 2025, the United States entered the longest federal government shutdown in its history.

The Shutdown No One Asked For In October 2025, the United States entered the longest federal government shutdown in its history after Congress failed to pass full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026. The lapse began on October 1 and dragged on for 42 days, 22 hours, and 25 minutes before lawmakers finally reached a funding....

The guided and I on an adventurous hike up the Solheimajokull Glacier. Our guide was from Chile and new to the hike, but she was terrific. We had a ton of fun. When we started out it was cloudy and a little rainy, as we got on the glacier things started to clear up, it turned out to be a beautiful warm day.

Being out on a little adventure often you meet other people who are on an adventure themselves. Its one of the fun parts of any trip. We ran into a couple who were just married and wanted to get some additional wedding photos and they chose this glacier as their back drop. I snuck a couple photos myself, cute couple and a stunning backdrop!

Something interesting to me was the black sand mixed in the glacier, which I learned is volcanic ash. When I was in grade school we took a field trip to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Pacific Palisades. It was a full day of real art education! The museum was designed after an ancient Roman villa that was discovered in Pompeii, Italy. I remember several years ago a volcano erupting in Iceland that shut down air traffic for a few weeks as this cloud of ash dissipated around the world. When I heard the news about this massive cloud of ash, in my naiveté, I thought of ash like ash from a camp fire, not earth or sand that was super heated and so small that it would float in the atmosphere for weeks. This was fascinating to me! It added a new perspective to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, resulting in Pompeii being buried in mountains of volcanic ash.