@Griffin – good question. I really enjoyed reading through W&P at this pace. It’s a book that stands up to it, and the 360-some chapters is really convenient for making it a year-long project. I wanted to do another year-long reading project (well, or I could see 6 months maybe for some books…), but I needed something that I thought would be worthwhile. I have read a number of Shakespeare’s plays in various classes, and I have seen some performed. I also listened to audio performances of them during a filing job I had back in the day. I’ve read a lot of the sonnets. But I’ve never studied all his writings as a unit and since I have a book of all his works, which is about 1000 pages, this seems like a good idea for a year long project. I found an online suggestion of how to read them (google something like Shakespeare 2020 project…) which I could just transfer into 2022.

Cindy, these are great ideas!

It’s also never too early to start making a small donation in his name if there is something he believes in. I didn’t think of it until college age for my son. He was volunteering his Friday evenings to a non-profit inner city organization in Oklahoma City and I made a couple donations to them because of that.

Another thing I learned when he was in college but can be adapted: he studied to be a youth minister and the instructor told me there was a youth ministry conference that has a really low rate for students so they can start making connections. If there is something he likes that has a local class – like programming for games or drawing or anything like that, that would be an idea. Hope this helps.

Yes! Brokerages make it easy to open custodial accounts for minors. At least with E-Trade, can see them when logging into your own account, so it’s all super streamlined.

Ours hold Disney too! Anything to get them interested. Somehow ETFs just don’t inspire the same passion. 😉

@Carolyn – they are brokerage accounts at Fidelity. So fairly similar to what any other Fidelity customer would open up.

The first post in the category is a suggested 10-year plan for reading the plays, for anyone who finds the one-year project a little too daunting.