I am sure most of you reading this experienced some sort of extreme wind and/or weather conditions this past weekend. All in all, I think Meridian and staff were very fortunate to have avoided any significant damage or long-term outages. Although, my partner Sarah’s kids’ school still doesn’t have power, so she

As I write this blog, I am sitting at the second sports practice of the three we have tonight.  Melanie just finished soccer practice, we are currently at Ben’s basketball practice, and we still have Ethan’s basketball practice to go.  All of our kids are blessed with great coaches, who care a lot about teaching

When you’re an 8-year-old kid like my son Coleman, and you LOVE sports, it’s okay to be a waffler. He is willing to (and pretty much does!) try anything and everything that involves a ball, stick, glove, goal, hoop, etc. As a result, he has asked us to sign him up for several different leagues […]

Sometimes, when writing a weekly blog post, my partner, Sarah Yakel, and I struggle to come up with a good topic that hasn’t been covered recently and is hopefully interesting. While I am certainly not thankful for a market decline, it does provide an obvious topic about which to write. The first thing that comes

As Nathan pointed out in his last Meridian Market Minute, tax forms are beginning to arrive in mailboxes across the country right about now.  We do get a lot of questions about what forms are coming and when, so here is a list of common forms, what they mean, and what to do with them. […]

My partner, Sarah Yakel, and I are currently attending the Inside ETFs conference at The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Yes, the weather is nice. Yes, the hotel is nice and so are the views. Yes, we are having fun (gasp!). And, yes we are in fact learning about new ideas and strategies that we […]

While even the IRS is scrambling to figure out how to comply with the new tax act—one portion of the new bill does seem clear, and is a really nice gift for parents and grandparents of students.  The new tax act allows 529 plan distributions for any eligible education expenses of K-12 education—not just the

Yesterday, we did one of my favorite holiday traditions.  Much to the consternation of my husband, the morning of New Years Day is when we take down every inch of Christmas decorations and put it all away.  Jonathan would happily leave all of the decorations up for another few weeks, but I love the fresh, […]

As a parent of three young children, this time of year is certainly an exciting (yet hectic!) one. As you might guess, all of the kids were quite literally bouncing off the walls in anticipation of Christmas morning. Fortunately, Santa came through and delivered most of what was asked for. The jolly old soul even