Retired: Redesigning Life

I’ve written extensively about loss, a fact of retirement that I have eventually accepted.  However, I have quite studiously avoided writing about the loss of…

Frequently in these posts, I’ve protested change, complaining about everything from the shutting down of Barnum and Bailey to the growth or my grandchildren.  But,…

Flipping through radio channels recently, I stopped when I heard the word “retirement,” and then I listened.  The host was referring to a magazine article…

When I was exploring options to fill the time I once spent with my growing-up grandchildren, a tune popped into my head.   I haven’t thought…

I had a wild dog, an Irish Setter, who, had he been a human, would have been on Retinol.  When he was 8 years old,…

I’ve written several times about changes that have been troubling – changes that, on the surface, seem trivial, like the closing of the circus.  In…

Each morning, as I take my walk through a neighboring park, I see a beetle moving its little legs furiously as it crosses the sidewalk…

The ‘New Normal”? We’ve heard the phrase since the financial crisis of 2008, when it appeared in a 2008 Bloomberg News article. * The headline…

The news media has devoted itself in the last few weeks to extensive coverage of the virus now ravaging our country and our world.  We…

I’ve been reminded, recently, of the challenge that many retirees face: a loss of activity and/or purpose after leaving a job and a well-established routine.…