“America’s Most Wanted: Connection”

Happy Valentine’s Day.            May you and yours experience love and peace always. Dear Coach Karen C, My life has changed enormously in the last five years. There used to be plenty of time for just living and having a satisfying relationship with a friend or neighbor. Now I spend hours everyday responding to phone calls, [...]

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Caught in the Middle Asks Karen C

Dear Coach Karen C: Here it is the New Year and I am complaining already. My nephew makes me crazy. I am Managing member of our family LLC. It is my responsibility to get the tax information to our accountant as early as possible. The compiled information from the LLC return must be provided to [...]

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Bewildered and Tired Asks Coach Karen C

January 10, 2012

Dear Coach Karen C: Over the holidays my husband’s parents stayed with us for a week. We have had a good relationship for 25 years, but this week was different. My mother-in-law complained about everything from the bed and food to the weather and politics. I did my best to make her comfortable and talk [...]

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Civility Pledge

February 10, 2011

The tragic events in Tucson last month brought on an unusual conversation in the media. For a few days “Civility” was in the news. There were urgings for “someone else” to be more civil in the way they reported the news, or spoke about each other. Certainly, “we” are civil. It’s the other guy who [...]

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Going Home For The Holidays

December 22, 2010

My grandchildren’s  excitement pulses from their anticipation. Public music is intense. Rain beats hard. Traffic is gridlocked but polite. My shopping is nearly done. The house is filled with smells of cookies baking and fresh pine boughs. The decorations look familiar. They are old friends that get dusted off and rearranged every year…something old, something [...]

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Gold Time

November 16, 2010

Today’s post was written by Claire Laughlin I was having lunch with a very wise colleague the other day, and she said something that I have been pondering ever since (as wise people often do). We were talking about how the economy has impacted our ways of working and she said, “I am sad about [...]

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Including Adult Children in Dialog During Design of Estate Plan

October 14, 2010

At some time, every family has its “wild card”. It may be a personality, a situation, an unexpected reversal, an illness, grieving, a death….something that keeps the family dynamic stirred up, off kilter. Within that context, what outcome to your estate settlement process would you desire? How would you like your children to be in [...]

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