You and I are closer to some people than we are to others. We have acquaintances, friends and loved ones. We share some things with everyone and more personal things with our friends, but we reserve our most intimate moments for those…
« read »Dear Dave,My wife and I have been married for nine months, and we’ve been following your Baby Steps plan for three months. We have about $50,000 in debt, and I recently cashed out an old whole life policy that enabled us to…
« read »During the last century, 10 million people died in natural disasters and 400 million died as victims of human violence — a 1:40 ratio. Ten million innocent victims of the forces of nature that God created — for instance, floods and earthquakes…
« read »Probably all of us have fantasized at one time or another about what we would ask for if we could get anything we wanted. A house we can’t presently afford? Some accomplishment? Winning the Little Rock marathon? Usually, when we engage in…
« read »Dear Dave,I switched to a debit card so that the money I spend comes directly from my checking account. But I still have a problem some months with overspending and buying things I shouldn’t. Do you think I should stop using my…
« read »The hardest word in the dictionary to put into practice is the word “yes.” It’s one of the first words that many of us learn as children, and yet we still struggle to apply it to our everyday lives. It is one…
« read »Today the Church celebrates the feast of the presentation of the child Jesus in the Temple 40 days after his birth, and as we see in today's readings, this was a powerful moment in the life of the Holy Family. They went…
« read »Dear Dave, Our 21-year-old son is in college, and we’ve always warned him to stay away from credit cards. Despite our warnings, we recently learned he got a store-branded credit card. The good news is he has stayed under the credit limit.…
« read »There is no part of the world exempt from disasters. We have tornados, drought and most recently here in Arkansas, ice storms. Other places have hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and mudslides, and these are just the natural disasters, The worst disasters are…
« read »Every child needs heroes, and one of my greatest heroes is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who I regard as one of the greatest Americans who ever lived — and all the more so these days when some in politics seem to…
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