Good Day Dear Friends, Last year for the NCAA Basketball Championship I selected Virginia(UVA) to climb to the pinnacle of the basketball tournament. Unfortunately, all NCAA basketball fans know what happened next…(for those who do not follow college basketball, UVA was the first #1 seeded team in championship history to lose to a #16 seed, lowest ranked team). While I felt the pain of the loss, I still believed that UVA had the best basketball coach in the country in Tony

Good Day Dear Friends, It was ten years ago, on March 9, 2009, that the 2008-2009 Recession concluded, and the stock market began its long trek northward to become the longest “bull market” in financial history. This story has been well played out in the media, so I will not elaborate here – but – there is a backstory. When I graduated from college, one of my first opportunities was with Merrill-Lynch, at the time the leading financial bastion of Wall Street. I was not impr

Good day Dear Friends from Sea Pines Plantation / Hilton Head, S.C.; Almost 36 years ago my wife, Deona, and I were married in her hometown of Tucker, GA – after which we spent our honeymoon at Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head island. It was such a blur of life changing events, that we did not even think about bringing a camera, and taking pictures. All we remember were the mind’s eye honeymoon moments; many Cape Cod drinks at the pool, getting sunburnt to a crisp on our

Good day Dear Friends, Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching many of our local children, and young adults (the lead “Alice” going to the granddaughter of a good friend and client) perform in a local on-stage version of “Alice in Wonderland”. I am continually amazed at what stage magic can be done on a shoe-string budget. BRAVO - Tony Awards for ALL! It gives me great hope for our future when you see the young so adamantly involved in such a tough craft. Last week we sa

Our Prayers go out to all those who were affected by last weeks’ weather events…ending in this past weekend’s storms; tornadoes to the south of us, and white-out snow blizzards to our north. We in coastal Virginia had quite the early season thunder/lightning storm last evening, but nothing like those other effected areas. Stay safe. Bull market's tenth birthday. The S&P 500 bull market will celebrate its tenth birthday on Saturday, March 9, 2019. During that period, the S&P 5