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Retirement Talk is a weekly podcast intended for seniors, boomers and retirees. We will examine all aspects of retirement: actions, ideas, memories, and plans. We will consider travel, life...
One worn out piece of advice that seems to hold true all of our life is that we need to "pick our battles". Retirement has its limits. We ar...
We love a road trip in the family car. We feel free - and like we are truly on vacation. We are now making our plans. We are enjoying the st...
Finding meaning in our lives was the topic of the previous podcast. I wanted to continue that train of thought. We know having meaning in ou...
Finding meaning in life seems to be a never ending quest - sort of like pursuing more air to breath. Parents, teachers, bosses and our own c...
Musicians fall in love with their instruments. Artists fall in love with their creations. Kids fall down and skin their knees. Football play...
Though the change is slow it does happen. Spinoza would love it. It is that ever changing motion in a positive direction that brings happine...
What brings us happiness is so very relative. If we have just finished eating food we don't like or aren't satisfied we can go crazy over so...
I know people who pride themselves on how many miles they travel in one day. I have a hard time understanding this type of living. If you ar...
Sometimes we just want to do nothing or at least whatever it is that we are supposed to be doing. We have no energy and no impulse to try to...
What we do with ourselves, our family or friends when death comes is important to some. I don't think it is important to the ones who die bu...
Sixteen months ago my primary care doctor told me I had developed Mild Cognitive Impairment(MCI). In lay terms that means I am losing my min...
How much of our life do we really remember? I have a hard time even considering the question. I like to think that I remember what happened...
Age has a way with all of us. Time is a universal leveler. We have our day in the sun and then it is over. We learn as children that we had...
We should start a new political party entitled "We". It would be based on the premise that we should help and care for one another. We have...
Milestones are like mountain peaks - they give us a sense of where we are. We locate ourselves in relationship to them. That is what birthda...
Grit. The word has reappeared lately relating to child rearing and educational philosophy. There is no doubt in my mind that grit is needed...
Graphs and charts: One dealt with the average life span. I still have 17 years left according to statistical data. Another dealt with how mu...
Retirement has its moments of isolation and then again it provides us time to reestablish contact with moments and people from our past. The...
People used to work until they died and for the most part live in an extended family structure where some recognition was assured. Today's r...
Is there anything more important than a good story? And I might answer, "Very little". If there is one thing that we retired folks possess m...
Is it so important - to be politically astute? We all know the correct answer to that question. Our elementary teachers taught us that democ...
Neighbors are important and we might all find more comfort in life by engaging those close by rather than spending all of our time reaching...
We try and fail at many things in life and that isn't always bad. But perhaps my old history professor was right in his thoughts concerning...
Those new to retirement and having a tough time figuring out just exactly what they want to do with this new phase of life could do well by...
We all grow up in our own worlds. Our experiences are different from our brothers and sisters, our neighbors, or people that live across tow...
What we learned as a teenager, a college student, a mature adult, a parent, and citizen intertwines and forges a strong yet pliable state of...
"The good old days". Did the good old days ever exist? I've heard people talk about them all my life and yet I have never had a desire to re...
Making a list is not my favorite thing to do. But we are retired. We have different priorities. What is important has changed. But if you ha...
Who among us doesn't want to be loved? Maybe retirement is the time to become a magician. Or whatever else you dreamed of when you were a ch...
Now I find that if I really want to do something good for my brain I would lace up my running shoes. No kidding. Exercise. Exercises like bi...
How many times have you forgotten something? I can't remember how many times I have forgotten something. It must number in the millions or a...
Retirement usually comes to us in our sixties and it is at that same age that our parents are moving into their eighties. It is also at this...
When the end nears and you ask the question; "Did I live as I wanted?" or "Did I do what I wanted in my retirement years?" it would sure be...
Two weeks ago the wife of a good friend of mine died. She was 66: three years younger than myself. Cancer. Two months elapsed between diagno...
Retiring calls for learning to shift gears in a big way. We may make a few mistakes. We may grind a few gears as we adjust, but change we mu...
"If you take care of your feet your feet will take care of you". Whenever I say that my wife and my grandchildren roll their eyes. I usually...
We retired people have one big advantage over others. We have been around the block. We have “seen it all before”. We do have some years beh...
Retirement offers us a chance to reignite the imagination concerning what we can do with our life. We are no longer young and we cannot aspi...
Retirement affords us a special time in life when we can pick and choose how we spend our time. One could do worse than making movies a big...
One time after a snowstorm I went with him to brush the snow off the wings of one of his planes. Under the snow the wings were covered in fu...
Brenda and I had careers that were mental not physical. We worked mostly with our minds. We were teachers. When we retired one of our deligh...
I know: money is important. But is it the only thing that is important? I recently read a study of happiness as it relates to money. Retired...
I don't want to have any regrets. It takes a certain amount of forward thinking to conclude this. It also takes a certain amount of courage...
We have to learn to be kind, gentle, and compassionate. We are not born possessing these qualities. This thought has been like a brain worm...
We don't have to have the biggest house, farm, car or anything else. They may not be the most desirable. As a matter of fact; in many instan...
We retired folks have a perfect opportunity to talk to younger people. We have had a lifetime of experiences and education. We have been dow...
No matter what is scheduled, we go to coffee. It is a social hour for us. When we retired and relocated we took into consideration the dista...
Malcom Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker magazine, recently wrote a book where he suggested that if you do anything for 10 thousand hours...
In a recent email to Retirement Talk, John from McLean, Virginia wondered if I could talk a bit about Tai Chi. He exercises regularly, is cl...
Maybe the existentialists had it wrong. The real life of the absurd would be if we were to live forever. The idea of accepting our own death...