The Heirloom blog
Practical notes on keeping your family prepared.
Short reads on the conversations, the organizing, and the things most families don't find out until they have to.
Digital Life
The password problem: what your family can't do without access to your email
So much of modern life runs through one inbox. When no one can get into it, everything else gets harder.
The ConversationHow to bring it up without making it weird: scripts for the parent conversation
The hardest part is often the first sentence. Here are a few openers that keep the conversation on your parents' terms.
For ExecutorsNo, you (probably) don't inherit your parents' debt.
One of the most common fears after a loss is also one of the most misunderstood. Here's the reassuring reality.
For ExecutorsExecutors are usually paid. Almost no one knows it.
Being an executor is real work — and in most places, it's compensated. Here's what that means and why it matters.