The Still Here Gazette
We have not authorized the future. Scam warnings, retirement, estates and current news, delivered with the confidence of a man who has never opened the source.
Medicare has issued new stars. Barbara would like hers engraved.
The new plan ratings have reached the kitchen table. Barbara has prepared an acceptance speech for a decision she has not yet made.
Read the complete situationMedicare enrollment opens October 15. The kitchen table has been placed under federal supervision.
October 15 through December 7: a real enrollment window and an entirely avoidable argument about which envelope is the important one.
Read the complete situationThe government has not moved its payment department to the gift-card rack.
Marlene can detect an international plot in a microwave manual. The stranger asking for gift-card codes has received less scrutiny.
Read the complete situationRetirement planning requires numbers. ‘I know what I’m doing’ is not one of them.
Bud has a pension strategy, three sheds and a highly specific prediction about a currency collapse. His daughter would like a spreadsheet.
Read the complete situationYour estate plan cannot be ‘Everyone knows what I meant.’ They absolutely do not.
Ronald has posted his wishes publicly, twice. The family has responded with one heart reaction and a request to locate the actual documents.
Read the complete situationThe original scowl preservation charter: nobody is replacing Grandpa with the nice Christmas photo.
A portrait replacement is not an opportunity to rehabilitate the deceased. We preserve the face that went with the post.
Read the complete situationEach issue keeps its publication date and source notes. Breaking news must break something more substantial than Ronald’s concentration.*