by Leonard Baer | Dec 16, 2022 | Blog, Suddenly Solo
How often do we use the phrase, “to move on”? It seems that this piece of advice is the handy way to tell people how they should react from trauma. This phrase gets us out of the pregnant pause in a conversation when speaking to someone who has recently lost a loved...
by Leonard Baer | Sep 2, 2022 | Blog, Suddenly Solo
Grief is a very difficult word to explain….the why, is because each of us has felt grief in some specific way, but when we try to explain it to others, we realize that it is personal to us…different, yet the same. After several years of practicing elder law and...
by Leonard Baer | Jul 28, 2022 | Blog, Suddenly Solo
One of my younger clients recently suffered the tragedy of losing her husband in an accident. I was asked by her children to step in and try to give some guidance to their mother moving forward. I remember in our first conversation her saying, “I’ve lost my safe...
by Leonard Baer | Jul 6, 2022 | Aging, Blog, Suddenly Solo
Recently, I received a call from a widow, who was calling about Suddenly Solo 1…..she needed my help. After speaking for a few minutes, it became apparent, that she was embarrassed to ask for help, because she thought she would look foolish. Believing we look...
by Leonard Baer | May 6, 2022 | Aging, Blog
One of the greatest advertising campaigns in the last fifty years came from American Express…. Actor Karl Malden, an Academy Award Winning actor looking like a tough, street wizened police detective warned that if you left home without your American Express Checks,...
by Leonard Baer | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog, Elder Law News, Financial Planning, Financial Scams
There was a great line from the movie, Network… “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take this anymore.” That line is very fitting for me because I am mad! Awhile ago, I wrote an article on IRS scams in which people are called and informed that they owe back taxes....
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