By Rick Rodgers, CFP Every year, our politicians talk about the need to simplify the tax code and every year, they make it more complex. The average taxpayer will spend an estimated 23 hours completing their return this year. Eighty percent of taxpayers will hire someone to do the work, or buy tax software, even though [...]

By Sheryn Hara Self-published books have transformed both the reading and writing landscape, with hundreds of thousands of authors now eschewing traditional publishing routes. Once reserved for distribution to a writer’s close family and friends, these books are now respected as an affordable option with every bit as much potential for becoming best-sellers as those [...]

Fear, stubbornness, ignorance, procrastination, resignation – for singles or couples longing for love, these are among the deadly sins, according to relationship expert Ernest Quansah. “These are the psychological traits which singles and many couples use as excuses,” says Quansah, author of Do’s and Don’ts of Relationships: Nine Steps to a Deeper, Richer Love Relationship, [...]

By Maddy Vanhertbruggen via goodreads.com Reprinted with permission Assistant Defense Attorney Andy Barber, his wife Laurie and their son Jacob are very much a normal family until one of Jacob’s classmates, 14-year-old Ben Rifkin, is murdered. Andy takes on the case until the time that evidence is found that shows his son may have been [...]

The Sense of an Ending  Julian Barnes Vintage International ISBN: 978-0-307-94772-7 Reviewed by Greg Petty The Sense of an Ending is the first book by British author Julian Barnes that I have read. The book earned him the 2011 Man Booker Prize, Britain’s highest literary prize. Diane Rehm interviewed him on her PBS radio show, [...]