March 18, 2020 Iris Buczkowski This week is one of my favorite weeks of the whole year! Not only do I get to celebrate my Irish heritage (yes, despite the last name that I took almost 20 years ago, my lineage is partly Celtic), this week also celebrates World Down Syndrome Day. On March 21st […]

March 11, 2020 Iris Buczkowski I feel like the world is at its wits end these days.  It is very difficult to turn on the news without hearing about natural disasters, COVID-19, financial market whiplash, or political rhetoric.  I feel like if there was no bad news there would not be any news.  Let’s face […]

March 4, 2020 Iris Buczkowski Last week I was running around like a crazy person, which sometimes feels like it’s becoming a regular occurrence.  One day after I got home from my office I was still finishing up a few loose ends, making dinner, getting one kid ready for art class and another one to […]

February 26, 2020 Iris Buczkowski This past week has been a very cool one for hockey fans.  We were able to take a trip down memory lane and remember the infamous game in Lake Placid, New York where the United States Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet Union on their way to take the first-place […]

February 19, 2020 Iris Buczkowski I must admit that I have been enjoying writing this blog.  I always thought I was not a great creative writer and was much stronger on the technical side, but then I realized I was never really given the opportunity to try this gig out.  Truth be told, there are […]

February 12, 2020 Iris Buczkowski It’s been a rough few weeks in Hollywood.  I feel like every time the news has been on there has been a super sad story.  We lost Kirk Douglas at the grand age of 103, Kobe Bryant, his daughter and several others in a horrific helicopter crash, and then Shannon […]

February 5, 2020 Iris Buczkowski It looks like another celebrity is coming to town!  In case you haven’t heard, the son of famous rock legend Jon Bon Jovi, Jake, announced this week that he plans to attend Syracuse University in the fall.  Now, if you live in this area you are likely an SU fan, […]

January 29, 2020 Iris Buczkowski Now is the time , if you are like me, when we come down from the craziness of the holidays and start to kick ourselves a little bit for losing steam on the list New Year’s resolutions we promised ourselves to focus on this year.  Let’s face it – we […]

January 22, 2020 Iris Buczkowski Sometimes I feel like my children are the monsters of my own creation.  This is for a myriad of reasons that has evolved in varying degrees of complexity as they have aged.  Children are so impressionable and usually look up to us as parents to give them direction on how […]

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Which Stocks Performed Best of All? By Iris Buczkowski January 8, 2020 A new decade is upon us and with that is the opportunity to reset the bar on how the markets have performed and which companies showed up at the finish line.  It’s also a great chance to review […]