The two-headed Llama from Dr. Doolittle is my mascot today. I am being pushed by my desire to accomplish something – anything, really – and…
Embracing Technology
As much as I avoid using clichés, “preaching to the choir” is an apt description of this post. Readers of a blog have already discovered…
Keepers of Wisdom
One of the reasons that aging is difficult for many retirees is that our culture undervalues its elders. The media and advertising hold up images…
Poignancy
One of my favorite retirement bloggers posted an article warning about living for yesterday, finding everything about our current lives falls short of the idealized…
Happy Thanksgiving
Uh-oh! Thanksgiving? This is, after all, February . If this were a movie, you would see a calendar, turned to November 26, and then the…
No Place for Sissies
“Old age ain’t no place for sissies” — Bette Davis Ms. Davis was correct, I think. And yet, even if we describe ourselves as sissies,…
The Trouble with Time
If only time could be measured visually, kinesthetically, we might be less inclined to squander it. If we were issued time coins at birth, 24…
An Ugly Little Monster
I spend much of my retirement life battling an ugly little monster that has taken up residence in my thoughts. We meet daily, to duke…
How Much Am I Worth?
Success in redrawing life demands a paradigm shift. Our paradigms are the sets of beliefs in which we are invested; we shift those only when…
First Steps
And so, let the work of re-creation begin!! But how, exactly, do I begin? I think about remodeling a home, and I know that it…