Unlock Your Future with The Electronic Guardian: The Ultimate Guide for 40-Year-Old Parents All right, super-parent let’s have a heart-to-heart. You’re in your fabulous 40s, juggling family, career, and that elusive “me time.” Amidst this whirlwind, have you thought about the ultimate life hack—planning for your passing? Yes, it sounds heavy, but we’re talking about doing it the cool way, […]
So far, three different items were discovered that were not in the famous file cabinet. Listen, our mother was 91 years old, and yes, she had a computer, which I like to think of as the world’s most expensive deck of cards. She played countless hours of solitaire. In fairness, she could read her emails, check the news and do […]
Life does go on. With the Holidays, a vacation and then a week back at work trying to catch up on all that is, I have spent no time on my mother’s estate, and I feel behind. Here’s where things stand or do not stand, so to speak: I am slowly getting back into the swing of things, so stay […]
Week Three was getting the death certificates together and mailing the credit card companies, the insurance company, and the credit rating agencies. I covered this last week, but this week the letters were stuffed and sent out. Further, our mother does receive money back from her apartment in the retirement community. When she purchased her apartment, she had one of […]
Moving: After our mother passed, our first order of business was to review the contents of her apartment and start the cleaning process. Over the years, our mother had downsized from our family home, to a townhouse and finally to a one-bedroom apartment at Vincent Hall, a retirement community in Northern Virginia. The three of us accomplished a lot over […]