The ideas below are suggested by tax accountant Vinay Navani of WilkinGuttenplan. Discuss them with your personal tax professional to see whether they might make sense for you. Consider putting any losses to work for you If you have experienced declines in some investments, a process known as tax-loss harvesting could enable you to sell […]
Obsidian App – Part 2 Just so you don’t get lost in the weeds, let’s review why to use this app. Obsidian is an app to help writers, researchers, and learners keep their notes in an app that uses a powerful system to link your ideas together. Once your personal knowledge management begins to grow,
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Longtime friends and creative collaborators Josleen Wilson and Brittany Barker share the same birthday—54 years apart. Ms. Wilson, 83 years old, and Ms. Barker, 29, became friends through a writing-mentorship program nearly a decade and a half ago. Now, not a week goes by without their chatting, the two say, and they share meals at
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No one likes calling customer service. It’s a familiar scenario: You keep pressing “0” or yelling “Representative!” to reach a live human, only to wind up waiting, possibly for hours, entertained by a dreadful loop of elevator music. The 800-number nightmare has become increasingly frustrating during the summer of lost baggage, as delayed flights and
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By Dave Roos, an article in How Stuff Works. If the brilliant late-1980s TV show “MacGyver” has taught us anything, it’s that you can repel a gang of thugs, break out of prison, and build a functioning spacecraft with little more than a paper clip, a C battery, some twist ties and an empty tube
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Does Recycling Actually Make a Difference? What about Landfills? Everyone knows that person who refuses to recycle because they say it doesn’t actually do anything. Know anyone like that? Does recycling actually make a difference to our environment? The Good News About Recycling Perhaps you’ve heard — or made — the argument that putting more
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Homes and Mental Health We all know the rigors we had to endure for the past two years or more. Having to spend an inordinate amount of time, i.e. 24/7 in our home has sometimes been a drag on how we feel. Working, eating, socializing, relaxing, sleeping, dealing with noisy or nosy neighbors, helping
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Useful Tips for Safari on Your Mac Display the full URL – Go to Safari Preferences and click on Advanced Tab. Choose “Show Full Website Address” Quickly reopen a closed tab – Either use the History Menu and drop down to “Reopen Last Closed Tab” or use keyboard Shift+Command+T for the same effect. While you
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Tips, Tricks, and other nuggets of interest Here’s an interesting site for those who are interested in nutrition. https://nutritionfacts.org Livability Index (from AARP) https://livabilityindex.aarp.org type in a zip code or city. MacOS Monterey was released on October 25. I will upgrade to it this week. It has some very interesting features. IOS 15 was released
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Humans. We’re a fascinating bunch, aren’t we? We all think a bit differently and see the world in our own unique ways. Shouldn’t the technology we use adapt to us instead of forcing us to adapt to it? When it comes to productivity—whether it’s staying on top of your busy work day, keeping the details of your
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