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The Two Best Tools for Understanding Your Finances
Have you ever looked at an empty toolbox and wondered what should be in there? What are the fundamental tools that a craftsman absolutely must have? For financial planners, two of the most important tools are a person’s balance sheet and cash flow statement. A quick review of these two documents can tell a lot […]
Healthy Lifestyles Demand Robust Activity
With the summer approaching, this is an ideal time to make changes to lifestyle routines. They should be wholesale and not just around the edges. Robust activity is a good place to start with a focus on reaching equilibrium with a work-life balance. Think beyond the typical examples, such as exercising, but consider activities that […]
Orphan Pets Seek Superhero Adopters at 6th Annual Event
As comic book enthusiasts prep the perfect costumes for this year’s Comic-Con Convention, local pets are busy creating their superhero “paws-tumes” for Helen Woodward Animal Center’s 6th Annual PAWmicon Convention. The 2018 PAWmicon will, once again, be held one week prior to Comic-Con to allow attendees to take in both types of animated characters. The […]
USO San Diego’s 77th Annual Stars and Stripes Gala Honors Jack McGrory
USO San Diego’s 77th Annual Stars and Stripes Gala, For Love of Country, honors and supports active duty military personnel and helps provide them with much-needed services. The signature gala, which takes place at 5 p.m., Saturday, May 5 at the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina in downtown San Diego, has emerged as one […]
Priorities Matter
I knew the dreaded phone call would come one day, the call telling me my rent has been raised. Living directly across the street from Balboa Park is like living oceanfront. Just like there is only so much oceanfront property, there is also only so much facing the park. It is a lovely place to […]
Fashion Week San Diego’s Spring Showcase Blooms at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad
A water color wonderland, a natural existence of beauty, blooming buds that look like an array of the colors of sunset, this site is actually a place and it’s called The Flower Fields in Carlsbad. If you haven’t seen it, you need to go; and be prepared to take a camera and photograph all of […]
Presidio Hills Golf Course Restoration for the 250th Commemoration of California
Some San Diegans don’t realize just how popular our City is to people around the country. Whenever I travel outside of San Diego, which is frequently, I hear the same comment from people I meet, “I love San Diego and wish I could live there.” Unfortunately, those of us who live here sometimes forget how […]
2nd Annual San Diego Smooth Jazz Festival Returns to San Diego
Eric Darius to Host Event Back by popular demand, the 2nd Annual San Diego Smooth Jazz Festival presented by Rainbow Promotions and Payne Pest Management returns to San Diego June 29 through July 1 at the picturesque Embarcadero Marina Park North. The festival, hosted by Eric Darius, celebrates the long-lived musical style and features a […]
4th Annual Cabrillo Under the Stars
An Evening of Gourmet Food, Craft Beer and Wine The Cabrillo National Monument Foundation will present its 4th annual Cabrillo Under the Stars from 6:30 to 10 p.m., Saturday, June 2. The fund-raising gala will be celebrated under a star-filled sky with spectacular views of downtown, at San Diego’s only national park, Cabrillo National Monument. It’s a […]
What Now?
Reading is Freedom! If we readers try to imagine how we’d “get by” in life if we couldn’t read – well, we can barely fathom it. Day in, day out, we’re reading: street signs, newspapers (!), memos, web-sites, etc. Yet, as Jose Cruz, CEO of the San Diego Council on Literacy continues to remind us, […]
