Who knew the late Tom Petty was a college financial aid expert? The waiting is the hardest part  -when it comes to filling out FAFSA forms. On October 1, the great race commenced for financial and merit aid for college. Parents and students began filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA…

No financial tool is omnicompetent. Embracing incongruence is a much better plan. Incongruence is defined by David Epstein in his terrific book, Range, as: An informal culture of individual autonomy in decision making and dissent from the typical way of doing things. Cross-checking the status quo provides invaluable benefits. Relying on pure data can sometimes…

Why do so many safety nets go to the wealthy? America created a glass floor protecting the upper-middle class from the risk of downward mobility. Take a look at this crazy story from Dancing With the Stars. Christie Brinkley broke her wrist during a rehearsal. She was immediately replaced by her 21-year-old daughter, Sailor. Things…

Dina here … Exactly one year ago, I wrote a post,  Hardwired to Help, which told about our front-row seat in the world of pediatric cancer.  My goal was two-fold: to raise awareness about pediatric cancers (September gold), but also to encourage others to find their cause, whatever that might be.  A happiness study I…

“The world is nothing but change.” – Carlo Rovelli If you’re looking for order in the markets, good luck with that. Carlo Rovelli, the brilliant theoretical physicist, provides an epic description of time in his best selling book –The Order of Time. Physicists look at things much differently than us mere mortals. Their worldview is…