There are quite a few excellent financial planning blogs out there – so many that I sometimes wonder why I’m adding my own site to what is already a crowded space in the blogosphere.  Then I recall how much of what is out there is misleading, self-serving or just plain incomprehensible.  My goal is to provide sound retirement financial planning ideas and advice, written in plain English, without any underlying agenda.  I believe investing and financial planning are really quite straightforward if you can tune out the noise.  I try to provide enough explanation and references that the curious reader doesn’t just have to take my word for what I’m…