Last year, 26.5 million Americans decided to move to a new home. Many chose to move to Super States like Florida, South Carolina, and Texas, where politicians treat residents like more than a piggy bank. Terry Collins reports at USA Today: Pew Research says 26.5 million people moved from one home in the U.S. to another between March 2020 and March 2021--about 800,000 fewer moves than in the same time span between 2019 and 2020 -- based on the most current data available from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. And many of them migrated to the South, according to studies … [Read more...]

In my conversations with you, you tell me how you hiked all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000 footers. You were a lot younger, but it feels like yesterday. You and I know one of the secrets to life is simply putting one foot in front of the other. It’s putting food on the table, the kids through college, and retirement checks in the bank. You tell me how much you learned from your dad. How he could build anything and how your kids feel the same about you because you’re always at their house working on something. I remember like it was yesterday a conversation we had where you said, “Dad helped me … [Read more...]

Happy Monday. Who’s got your back in times like these when everyone’s making money, money, money? Let’s not forget when the music stops, not everyone’s going to have a chair. Like a broken record, there are always more investors than you’d expect who will be pushed to the floor. Happens every time. “It won’t happen to me,” is a common refrain. When I think about how hard most of you have worked to create what you have, I know come Monday, you got up and went to work. And the next week, same thing. Rinse, wash, repeat. That’s a lot of years and a lot of hours. Imagine having to do that all … [Read more...]

On Friday night, Becky and I visited with college friends for dinner at Scales and Shells here in Newport. It was so much fun. It had been a few years since the last time we were together, bringing back some great memories of our time at Babson. With our oldest child now a sophomore in college and our youngest applying, it’s a funny time to be a parent. We’re in sort of a slack tide, knowing day-to-day life will be a lot different this time next year when we’re empty nesters. It’s hard not to think, “Wow, this has gone by fast.” On Saturday, Becky and I felt like college kids taking a … [Read more...]

You want to live somewhere your hard work is respected. In a state like New Hampshire, with no income tax, you can be sure politicians aren't treating you like a piggy bank. But you can also enjoy some of the most beautiful country in America. Every year droves of tourists flock to New Hampshire for the fall foliage. The Conway Daily Sun reports on some of those who ventured there this year, writing: Michelle and Pat Case of Brookhaven, Miss., said they were first-time New England fall foliage viewers. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Michelle. She said they had flown into Bangor, … [Read more...]