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…
A New Re-creation
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…
A Shaking
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,…
1876 BC – 2023 AD
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…
Resilience
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…
New Normal
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…
A Prescription for Covid 19
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…
Be Still
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.…
Pushmi-Pullyu
The two-headed Llama from Dr. Doolittle is my mascot today. I am being pushed by my desire to accomplish something – anything, really – and…
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…