1006 What Now
"What Now" of course relates to retiring and what comes after that. Some of us have big dreams. I knew a guy in Alaska who retired and set o...
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Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees
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...
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And what did we do with our lives once we retired? Did we do what we thought we would? We did want to get involved in our community. This in...
1005 Home Free
Some folks I know have spent the last few years living home free. They go somewhere they have never been; rent an apartment or house and set...
1004 When Should I Retire
Long ago, my friend, Glen died at age 39: brain tumor. He never had to consider the question of when he should retire. That can happen to an...
1003 Food
One thing about retirement: the appreciation of food accelerates. We can enjoy the growing, the planning, the cooking, the colors, and the e...
1002 Assist or Enable
Parents want their kids to learn to think. We want them to think for themselves. We want them to become independent. It isn't something with...
1001 E-cigarettes
Sometimes I feel so out of it. When I stepped into the world of retirement I never thought I was leaving the real world. Now it seems like I...
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And what did we do with our lives once we retired? Did we do what we thought we would? We did want to get involved in our community. This in...
999 The Pause
The pause is the thing. The pause gives our mind time to work. It gives us time to think. It calls forth our imagination. We need time to so...
998 Graduation
We graduate many times in life. We step up. We step away. We step into. We move. That's the thing isn't it. We move on. Hopefully we move on...
997 Irresponsible
"One thing I love about retirement is the freedom to take risks and act "irresponsibly" - the kids are all grown - no-one is actually depend...
996 Focus on thing you can control
I'm getting grumpy. I am getting pretty possessive of what has my attention. Retirement offers us time to pursue whatever we wish but someti...
995 Energy & Retirement
Energy is one of those things that always seems in short supply. Thus it always has a high value. We feel this at the end of each day when w...
994 Connections
Our lives are filled with people coming and going. We meet them; have an interaction and then never see them again. We move one direction an...
993 Exploring
You don't have to go far to feel like an explorer. There is more novelty and more surprises waiting just around the corner. It is this daily...
992 What Money Can't Buy
When I launched this project I was discouraged with information available on retirement that did not have to do with investments and finance...
991 Advanced Directive
It is important that a health directive be clear and be known to those who might be involved in your manner of death. It makes me think that...
990 The Family Story
It is important to share information from one generation to the other. Just today the New York Times had an article about the importance of...
989 Would've, Could've, Should've
"Two roads diverged in the yellow wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." R. Frost
988 Stuck - What Now?
It is no fun being stuck. Retirement can have this effect on us. We can feel strapped to our past or our present. We can't seem to conceive...