As I write this blog, Hurricane Lane is approaching Hawaii and residents are facing the largest storm in 26 years.  News footage is dominated with charts of the storm’s path, balanced with residents buying water and other staples or evacuating. When this is posted, Hurricane Lane should be well past Hawaii and

  Happy 4th of July eve!  Tomorrow we celebrate our nation’s fight for independence with BBQs, pool parties, and fireworks—and oddly enough lots of hot dogs.  Apparently, Americans consume over 150 million hot dogs on July 4th.  Pretty impressive.Our forefathers fought for independence from outside and

Nathan always references cool songs in his blogs—the only one that came to mind for this blog was Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical”.  Not exactly a cool song, but I digress… Recently, I followed our usual Meridian advice to clients and started to review our own estate plan.  I hadn’t really looked at it

As we’ve written about many times, Meridian has been compliant with the 2016 Department of Labor fiduciary rule, as we have been fiduciaries since Meridian was founded in 2015.  To us, it just makes sense that your advisor should have your best interests in mind at all times!  As fiduciaries, we have the legal

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

This past Thanksgiving week, my wife and I made the somewhat suspect decision to travel to the Gulf Coast of Florida and back (with a layover in Dallas) with our three children, ages 8, 6, and 3. While our time in Florida with family friends was a lot of fun, the travel part was not. […]

This weekend, our family went on a little mini-vacation to the Gaylord hotel in National Harbor.  If you’ve not been, the hotel is quite stunning when decked out for Christmas.  Numerous trees, twinkling lights, water fountain shows set to Christmas music, gingerbread villages—Christmas season was in full swing!

Last week, the ladies of Meridian all attended Leadercast Women, brought to Warrenton by LFCC Workforce Solutions.  It was a powerful day of speakers and networking with other women in the community, and we all left with a lot to think about. One of the speakers was Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King,

Understanding the Equifax Data Breach and Its Impact The Equifax data breach has been highly publicized since the news broke on September 7, 2107.  In this huge breach, ranking in the top five of all time data thefts according to USA Today, the hackers stole personally identifiable information from 143 million