Editor’s note: Dr. Rosmann requested an outside author write his column this issue.
Dear Michael: We have talked about talking to someone about our estate planning for what seems like years now. We talked about it when we had small children, and it was put on the back burner. We talked about it when our eldest son came back from college and told us he wanted to farm with us…
I have a nephew I’m very proud of. Well, that’s not fair, I’m actually very proud of all of my nieces and nephews. But Charlie was in a position where he could change the world, for me anyway, I thought.
It is so easy to think of things to be thankful for if we really want to. Sometimes we think it has to be big things, but it is rarely the big things that make us happy.
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this previous column of Dr. Rosmann’s from 2015.
Dear Michael: Do you think the upcoming election will help our country come to its senses about taxes, including estate taxes, and inflation? We certainly hope this will be a turning point in our country. – Tired of the Economy and Government
Being a rancher all my life, I’ve always been partial to the fall season.
While some beach goers and famous people, “show a little skin,” I only do that when I go to my dermatologist. The coldest day of the fall and my annual appointment coincided this year.
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2015.
Dear Michael: We went to an attorney about 10 years ago to put our minerals into a trust to protect them from long-term care costs. Now that I am looking through the paperwork, I do not see anything about irrevocable and it may be in a revocable living trust. How do we tell the difference be…
I recall a funny story of one of our presidents and his wife on the day before election. I can’t recall which one it was, maybe you “electronic historians” can flush it out, but anyway the story goes that he was so confident in victory that he jokingly “smarted off” to his wife saying, “Well…
I got a very sweet note from a reader of this column today. She told me she had heard me speak several years ago. She didn’t mention the “when” and “where,” but it doesn’t really matter. My public speaking experiences were all disasters. Every one of them. So I would like to take this moment…
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2015.
Dear Michael: We have, what our attorney called, an “old-styled” will. It was set up when estate tax credits were low and we had to make sure that upon the first death, all the property we had would go into a trust for the surviving spouse – and therefore not get taxed again upon the second …
Only in America: Apple pie, hot dogs, family outings – The World Series. Treasured memories. Remember when Mickie Mantle and Willie Mays were the first to top the six figure salary market, followed by the Sandy Koufax-Don Drysdale holdout for the same and these guys were the best of the best…
Fast foods will kill you. The medical community has said this for years and recently a survey by DrugGenius.com provided some information that supports that death threat. I wanted to cry when I read it.
Agriculture and the well-being of consumers will improve together with advances in sustainable farming, according to scientific experts from around the world who met in person and by teleconnections to exchange information during a conference in Odense, Denmark, this past August. The confere…
Dear Michael: We came to you about 15 years ago and you had helped us set up a will with an attorney. Since then, we met with other estate planners who told us we should take advantage of the Limited Liability Partnership to get a break on estate taxes. We went ahead and spent a lot of money…
We have lost our local icon. For numerous decades, Paul Quinn has greeted us good morning through all sorts of weather, sunshine, rain, wind and snow with his very unique and unmistakable voice, bringing the world alive on KLTC-AM Radio, Dickinson, N.D. It’s no more to be; Paul crossed over …
I’ve had a love/hate affair with garden tillers since I was born. The first one I had was like a small Volkswagen Beetle on wheels. It was well-used when I got it and had to be started by someone taller and stronger than me. I could not get effective leverage on the pull string even by climb…
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2015.
Dear Michael: I was married before I married my current husband. I had two children – a boy and a girl. After I married my current husband, we had three more children – two boys and a girl. Throughout all our years, my husband has always raised the first two children as his own – even though…
Have you ever watched our pronghorn antelope bucks fight?
COVID has been hard on all three of my daughters’ bathroom scales. I guess they had been lamenting about their weight gains to each other and had formed a competition to see who could become healthier over the next three months. They sent each other pictures of the number on their bathroom s…
A few years ago a farming friend told me during one of our periodic conversations over morning coffee, “If you want to know a little bit about something, just ask me – I only know a little bit.” This is the same person who proclaimed, “If you talk too much, you’ll get a sunburned tongue.”