Jane Pauley looks at reinventing life after 50
Jane Pauley gets it — the real fear that so many people over age 50 face about what they are going to do for the next 30 or 40 years. In her compelling new book, Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life (Simon & Schuster, 253 pages, $26.00), Pauley, the formerToday show and Dateline NBC co-host, delivers a […]
BOOK REVIEW: ‘WARREN BUFFETT INVESTS LIKE A GIRL”
By Kerry Hannon, No doubt the title of this new book —Warren Buffett Invests Like A Girl And Why You Should, Too — grabs your attention. But no snickering allowed. Calling legendary investor Warren Buffett a girly investor is not a put-down.. Turns out “investing like a girl” is a good thing. It refers to Buffett’s even temperament — […]
BOOK REVIEW: EVIL PLANS
Getting laid off was a good thing for ‘Evil Plans’ author Hugh MacLeod by Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Buy the book on Amazon.com There’s no doubt that Hugh MacLeod, author of Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination, loves his work. It bounces off every page of his crisp, slim, […]
BOOK REVIEW: DEBT FREE U
‘Debt-Free U’ offers degree in saving on college costs ‘Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education without Loans, Scholarships or Mooching off My Parents’ by Zac Bissonnette. Portfolio, 290 pages, $16 By Kerry Hannon Special Read Published Reviewmagine you’re a 21-year-old college senior with no student loans, a stock portfolio — […]
BOOK REVIEW: TIPS ON NAVIGATING THE NEW MIDLIFE STAGE
By Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Buy the book on Amazon.com Marc Freedman kicks off The Big Shift: Navigating The New Stage Beyond Midlife, with a tale of pulling out his newly minted AARP card to score the “senior discount” at the Homewood Suites in Medford, Ore., while requesting two cribs for a room where his […]
ADULTHOOD II, THE SEQUEL
Read published article Composing a Further Life author Mary Catherine Bateson discusses achieving perspective and peace in the second half of life. By Kerry Hannon|February 21, 2011 Mary Catherine Bateson wants to upend the way we think of aging. In her latest book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, the renowned anthropologist coins a […]
LIZ WESTON’S ’10 COMMANDMENTS’ FOR LIVING WELL
Read the published article | Buy the book at amazon.com You want Liz Weston on your money management team. In the past 15 years, Weston, author of The 10 Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New Economy, has steadily built a following as a personal finance journalist who solves problems. Weston is an educated […]
BOOK ON MONEY TELLS HOW AUTHOR LOST HERS
Read published article Buy the book at amazon.com In her new book, Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity(Grand Central Publishing, $24.99, 426 pages), Sarah Ban Breathnach, exorcises her own “tawdry money secrets” and reveals what she calls “a feminine cannon of cautionary tales.” Enlarge Ban Breathnach has written a money book for women that […]
BARTIROMO’S ‘WALL STREET’ DIGS INTO TALE OF LEHMAN TALKS
By Kerry Hannon Special for USA TODAY Read Published Article: USA TODAY Maria Bartiromo is a market force in her own right. Buy the book on Amazon.com She’s the anchor of CNBC’s Closing Belland host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated Wall Street Journal Reportwith Maria Bartiromo. Her stock in trade is making sense of how the market […]
BOOK REVIEW: THESE REGULAR FOLKS HAVE BECOME ‘WARREN BUFFETTS NEXT DOOR’
“The Warren Buffetts Next Door” by Matthew Schifrin. By Kerry Hannon Read Published Article Buy the book on Amazon.com Fancy yourself getting rich picking stocks? Or maybe just rich enough to afford to a take a great vacation each year or to send your kids to a good college? Lots of people do — even in […]
