FINANCIAL FOCUS

During your working years, you know where your income is coming from because you’re working. But once you retire, you’ll have to identify your income sources, know how much you can expect from them and know how to manage them to help support a retirement that could last two or three decades.

How Do You Keep Going When Things Get Tough?

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s, I mean,” wrote Mark Twain. If you’re reduced to human resources, there’s wisdom as well as wit in Twain’s quip. Severe personal adversity has a way of undoing us. The selfassured masks we love to wear become difficult to maintain.

Ask Aunt B

My parents have just recently passed away. I think they left their affairs in horrible order. They have lots of bills. Can I be forced to pay their bills? I can barely pay my own bills, and I’m scared and kinda mad at being left with this mess.

The In Between Blues

Once, I was terrified to pray in front of people. By that, I don’t mean the way you recite a prayer that someone made you memorize, nor do I mean the way that you listen and absorb a prayer someone else is saying.

Dear Aunt B,

I have a bit of a problem. I have some really good friends that I love. I love to spend time with them. The problem is they have a friend that I can’t stand. I mean really can’t stand. I can’t be in the same room with them. I have tried to get over this, but I just can't.

Dear Aunt B,

I am in my fifties. I have been divorced for a few years. I don’t even know what I want as far as a relationship, but I do think I want one. I am pretty set in my ways but lonely sometimes. I hear horror stories of online dating. Are there any other ways to meet people?

Did You Know?

The first All-Star game in Major League Baseball was played on July 6, 1933. The game was an effort to make professional baseball more popular, and it remains a beloved event on the MLB calendar today. According to History.

Look To The Stars

On August 23, 1966, the first American spacecraft to orbit the moon, Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft, part of NASA’s Lunar. Orbiter program, sent back to Earth two photos of the Earth taken from the distance of the moon.

Letter to the EDITOR

Hi my name is Caleb Anderson, I am sending this email to say we the community are grateful for the tree service company & Oncor for picking up trees and fixing power from the bad storm we had.

News from area colleges. . .

The following local student has been named to the Deans’ Lists at Drake University. To be eligible for the Deans’ List, students must have earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher during the Spring 2024 semester at Drake. To be eligible for the President’s List, students must have earned a perfect 4.