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5 Easy Tips for Summer Time with Grandkids

A morning walk triggered a fond memory in early June, mid-sixties. The water was cold as I jumped into the

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Ten Ways to Ensure the Giving Legacy You Hope For

The birthday card danced across the parking lot. Decorated with a handful of balloons on the front, it seemed perfectly

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How Your Future Legacy Can Be Greater Than the Legacy Remembered

Quickly scanning my email, I saw The Round Table. Authored by my friend Fred Smith, it’s a blog I read

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Nine Steps on the Giving Ladder You Can Share with Your Children

Peeping through a keyhole on Christmas morning, I could see the packages and toys Santa had brought. All under the

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Nine Best Life Lesson Tips to Enhance Generations of Giving

  Blinking lights. School zones. Weather changes. Fall is right around the corner. Recent rainy days here at the start

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Conversations

Tips for All-Important Family Conversations

A friend shared that he planned to have a conversation very soon with his wife about some of the finer

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Aunts and Uncles

How Aunts and Uncles Teach the Next Generation About Giving

The day started normally. Two generations of family members gathered around a table for the annual meeting, intent on making

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one-third

How Do You Know If Your Last One-third Has Started?

What if today is the beginning of the last one-third of your life? How will you define success for that

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legacy

How to Write a Legacy Statement – The Most Important Gift You Will Leave Behind

Tiny stacks of 35-millimeter slides covered the dining room table. One by one I passed them through the slide viewer.

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