Dear Moneyist, I am a married woman age 69 and my husband is 79. I am his second wife and we have been married for 22 years. He is not in the best of health and requires my care. He suffers with debilitating arthritic pain and is not able to …
Read More »The Moneyist: My sister moved from New York to our mom’s house due to COVID-19. She saved $11K in rent and expenses. Is that fair?
Dear Moneyist, My sister gave up her apartment in New York City and moved back home in April, shortly after COVID-19 erupted there, and has now been living rent-free with my mother for the past seven months. My sister is 42 years old and holds a full-time job with a …
Read More »It was fair winds and following seas for small-business owners like these ship captains. Then came coronavirus
When the tall, bearded sailing ship captain danced into her life late in 2009, Julie McKay was ready to be swept off her feet. McKay, a massage therapist, was living near Baltimore when she flirted with Hugh Covert at a contra dance at an old stone church one evening. Over …
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