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A friend recently told me about a company with a cool concept. They catch phrase is, “turn worthless dollars into gold”. “Worthless dollars” makes reference to the U.S. dollar no longer being backed by gold. The company allows its customers to buy gold one gram at a time for $60. This makes the concept of owning gold attainable for the masses. As I am writing this, gold is running just...
Ashley and I recently took our toddlers to the Ripley’s Aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for the first time. Boy did we have a time. Notice the omission of the word “good” in that last sentence. The time we had was stressful and not fun. My three-year-old decided he wanted nothing to do with the exhibits. Instead, he wanted to plow up and down the halls pushing the “stroller of...
In chapter 31 of the book of Proverbs, Solomon’s mother tells him what to look for in a woman. This is fascinating because the Bible is often written from a man’s point of view. Here we have a woman giving her perspective as to what a woman should be. Girls all over have clung to these verses looking to them as a guide stone for what a “real” and successful woman should be. Let’s take a...
When starting on the journey of real estate investing, it’s hard to figure out which way you should go. It make’s it even harder when you have little to no money. This was the problem Ashley and I had experienced. We were broke. I mean flat broke. Like I was going door to door with my pressure washer trying to get up enough work for grocery money kind of broke. We didn’t know how we were...
Assuming there is such a thing, I went to a good funeral recently. It was for a wonderful young woman named Amanda Mitchell. She died at age 35. Hers is a remarkable story of bravery, faith and love. Early in Amanda’s second pregnancy, the doctors found a softball-size tumor on her colon. The recommendation was to abort the pregnancy and treat the tumor. This violated Amanda’s faith...