Last week, we gathered hot, cranky and tired children and spouses of Meridian and made them take our annual Meridian family photo. Luckily, our friend, Jen Dowell, is an amazing photographer and maybe an even better Photoshop editor? After 30
Unfortunately for my son Coleman, he had to have a tooth extracted last week for the second time in is short life. The first time was because he banged his mouth on the side of a coffee table and caused
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.
I write this post from Williamsburg as I deliver my three kids to my parents to stay this coming week—the annual parent-free visit with grandparents! My kids look forward to this week all summer…I am not sure my parents share
As with many providers of statements for all things, the Social Security Administration wants you to “go green.” Many of us have learned by now that’s code for ‘we want to save the trees, but we also want to save
Since Sarah called me out on song references in her last post, I thought I would stick with the theme. I could remember the name of the song “Reunited,” but I couldn’t remember the artists. In my defense, the song
With your investments, I mean. There is an interesting slide from JP Morgan with two charts showing investor allocations by region. There is quite a large disconnect between a US investor’s allocation to non-US investments and the actual make-up of
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
For most people, tax season officially comes to an end today, April 17th. All of us have the weekend and a Washington D.C. holiday to thank for the extra two days. Because the traditional April 15th fell on a Sunday
About 58 years ago, my grandparents (and my mom and her 4 siblings) moved from Pasadena, California to the Northern Virginia area. The new owner of the Pasadena house planned to have the house demoed in order to build a