Understanding Your Retirement
Old or Retired? There’s an Acronym for You Do you know your aging acronyms, and we’re not talking about acronyms that are past their prime? The AARP has a repository of these abbreviated agencies and programs that it calls “Acronyms in Aging.” If you are 50 or older,...
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Keeping Your Brain Sharp After Retirement
Triumphing over the Aging Brain One of the worries of embarking into retirement is often unvoiced, because it is too personal, closely tied to aging and diminishing cognitive abilities. The aging brain is susceptible to impending senility, even Alzheimer’s, and that...
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Downsizing In Retirement: Adjusting Family Traditions
We recently downsized from a house that had a good deal of running room inside and out for the kids and the grandkids when they would come visit. It was something we always took for granted – space to run, areas to play and one of our favorite family traditions was...
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Why Turning Seventy Is No Big Deal
Turning Seventy? Don't Panic! Now that the front line of Baby Boomers has achieved septuagenarian status, the fact that living to the age of seventy, which used to be an accomplishment, has become rather ordinary and mundane. It turns out that seventy is the new...
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Where It All Started
Where It All Started-Goals Realized I love music. I love it in the morning, afternoon, evening, any time the mood hits me. It’s such a large part of my life and always will be. I grew up on rock and roll and it has greatly influenced my life from friends to...
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Working After Retirement
Retirees Working: Job Market’s Hottest Prospects The problem for many retirees, after decades of the day-to-day commitment to the demands of their working lives, is adjusting to what once seemed like best of outcomes: doing what you want to do for the rest of your...
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Retirement: Spending the Right Time with Family
Stepping back You know how important family is. You see it on TV, hear about it in songs, and feel it every time you are with those that are close to you. You want to make the most of every opportunity when there are times that family or those that are close to you...
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Overcoming Goal Procrastination in Your Retirement
So, you have established your Designed Retirements plan and now to you have to execute it. Some of the items are easy to do, some are more difficult. It’s easy to plan an outing with your spouse, but not as easy to volunteer at a local charity. The latter requires...
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Senior Corps Enriches Retirement Years
You’ve devoted all of your adult life to your job or jobs; your career. It sometimes required spending time away from your family, and now your children are adults and you’ve been missing quality time with grandchildren. You’ve reached the Mecca of retirement and you...
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COOKING – A TIME TO REMEMBER SIMPLE PLEASURES
So, what’s for dinner? Is it the frozen pizza or the pre-packaged “dinner entrees” from the freezer? Or is it the leftovers from the frozen pizza or the prepackaged dinner entrée? We’ve all been there and it is unfortunately that’s the case too many times. But with some weekly pre-planning, dinner or lunch can be a time to relax and enjoy a new recipe or try something new on your own with that frozen chicken that’s been taking up space in the freezer. …
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