When Plans Change
This past holiday season was wonderful and busy at our home with children, grandchildren, and friends. Afterwards, my wife and I decided...
Changes in health care rules during the COVID-19 crisis.
The global pandemic crisis has led to many changes in rules for health care including the Medicare program. Most of the changes are...
Fishing, 10,000 Hours and Elder Law
I had long been intrigued with fly fishing. And then I did it and I was “hooked”. I was not a novice to fishing. I grew up catching...
Hunting Relationships
My parents divorced when I was in the fourth grade. For a couple years we lived in the same area as my father (in Texas), then we...
You Just Need to be Ready and Take Action
I recently wrote an email regarding a football game I watched on TV. The game was between the Green Bay Packers and the then undefeated...
Making Sausage
There is an old saying that if you knew how sausage was made, you would never eat it again. What it is talking about is all the...
When Friends Slow Down
My wife and I have two dogs and a neighbor dog who hangs around quite a bit. Each day either my wife or I or both of us take the dogs...
You Decide or Someone Else Will
While my law practice of 40 plus years has always included estate planning, it was only the last seventeen years that my sole focus has...
Doing the Best We Can
Recently we celebrated Father's Day. This year, my youngest son, Dan, and I spent it together in Colorado – just the two of us. We were...
Waiting is not a good option
“Betty” called my office in 2011. She was trying hard to care for her husband who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. We spent some time...
