Looking Ahead at My Financial Future

Let's see.... you've got this headline: "Stocks Suffer Sharpest Drop Since 2008," with phrases like "free fall," "stalling economy," "downgrade," and "few options to increase growth.

Then you've got:"Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show." Some key phrases include "challenges the doom and gloom,""resurrgence" and "printed word is alive and well."

The uptick in publishing is basically credited to e-readers. The plummeting of the stock market - which obviously has much more ominous and enormous implications - is a complex brew of lost investor confidence.

Well, perhaps I can put my woes in perspective with the news out of Somalia or Syria. Sigh.