Darcie Guerin

While waiting for a flight 10 years ago in the St. Louis airport, I picked up the book, “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson.

Labor Day weekend is a time to celebrate and remember the hard-working men and women who first came together on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York to celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday.”

It was the summer of 1969; do you remember where you were? Two important events occurred; the Apollo Moon Landing and Woodstock. I also celebrated my ninth birthday that summer. While I remember listening to Walter Cronkite reporting on the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson said “Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences”. If we apply his wisdom to today’s economic situation, we’re feasting on a banquet of debt. The trick is in how we’ll digest the consequences ...

There was a flurry of positive news at the end of July which drove the markets up. The most-quoted indices are all at or near their 2009 highs. First, several banks and large companies such as Intel Corp., Caterpillar Inc. ...

There’s a mystique around golf that I have find intriguing. Not a golfer myself, I’ve never had a burning desire to chase the little white ball, and since no one that I spend a great deal of time with is ...

Mid-year is the perfect time pause, take a look back to review this past year and to see what the road ahead may bring.

A University of Iowa study found that female professional leaders reach their peak performance at age 43, while men max out at age 47. They also state that women’s contributions in the work force start to diminish at age 59.7 ...

Last week you were introduced to my friend Grace who was recently widowed. She and her husband had the difficult conversations while he was alive and discussed what the future may hold if one of them were to pass.

You know them when you meet them; people who are truly inspiring. I met Grace (not her real name) at what was possibly the worst time in her life. Her husband had just passed away, yet I sensed a certain ...

Today could be one of the best performing days in the stock market or it could be one of its worst days.

Congratulations to all graduates and their families, school is officially out for summer.

Do you remember Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in “The Pink Panther” movie, when he asks a hotel clerk, “Does your dog bite?” The emphatic reply is, “No.” Next, Sellers leans over to pet the dog and says, “Nice doggie.” ...

While reviewing her father’s finances, a friend of mine only half jokingly said, “Hey Dad, you may want to think about going back to work.”

In these challenging economic times most of us know someone who has been directly impacted by the financial crisis, whether it’s by a decline in portfolio values or something much more serious like the loss of a job.