Retirement

Retirement is a milestone for anyone. For someone who has spent 20 years in the army full-time it is an even bigger milestone...no more long-term deployments or last-minute assignments that take you away from family and into harm's way. Read this perspective from an army wife as her husband's retirement approaches.  Read more

[Editor's Note: Journalist Karen and her writing professor husband entered their fields at a very bad time for finding a writing job (can I get an amen?). Her personal brand of frugality is very much in line with mine: be stingy about some things so you have money for what really matters to you. I love her attitude. Check out what she has to say about financial fragility and how to overcome it. -Rita]  Read more