Happy New Year NFC clients and friends!                            I love this time of year!  Durham Public School teachers had our first...

Hello NFC  Clients and Friends,             It’s that time of year again— back to school for educators, students, and the families...

Happy New Year NFC clients and friends! I love this time of year!  As a teacher, I have just spent the last 2 (of my 14!) weeks of...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”  I believe I first encountered this profound insight many moons...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, “Winter is coming,” every summer for North Carolina teachers. An odd proclamation on what may yet prove...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, For decades the “cash is trash” mantra in finance has been defensible for a variety of reasons. In 2023,...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, Several of you have joined many Americans in applying The Clash’s famous interrogatory (see title above)...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, I may have a new vice. I cannot remember a day in 2023 that has passed without listening to a podcast....

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, Despite the poor precedent, I am re-hashing a theme posted only a couple of months ago: a silver lining...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, Do you get tired of deleting Spam emails from your inbox? It seems my Gmail cannot learn fast enough to...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, Warren Buffett is a wellspring of homespun, profound aphorisms that will undoubtedly stand the test of...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, A week ago Friday, we moved our first born, Mackenzie, into her college dorm room— an emotional experience...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, When was the last time you can remember going a week, or even a day, without seeing or hearing the word...

Hello NFC Clients and Friends, The Norman family spent the better part of the previous two weeks in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, driving...

Friends of NFC, As I write, war continues to rage in Ukraine, markets are selling off, inflation is now a growing concern, recession is...