Category: Retirement
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Age Has Nothing to Do With It
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of my favorite memories of all time is when I was babysitting my great-niece, then age 3 or 4, and she asked me if she could play with my phone. She’s 16 now, so this was about 12 years ago, 2012 or so. At the time I still had a… Read more
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25 or 6 to 4
Reading Time: 5 minutes I was in the 7th grade at a Catholic school when a bunch of guys in the Chicago area who loved music found each other and formed a band called The Big Thing. Those guys, all about 10 years older than me, dressed to the nines in skinny suits ala the… Read more
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The Unusual, Round Place We Call Home
Reading Time: 5 minutes When Randy and I moved to Southwest Florida in July 2021 we didn’t know a lot about the area. Today, in fact, I found out for the first time that the closest city, Englewood, is unincorporated. This means there’s no local government or police force. All governmental services are provided by… Read more
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How Many Cars Does a Retired Couple Need?
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Randy and I moved to Florida we brought the 2 vehicles we had in Missouri with us. Randy’s HUGE Silverado HD long bed, club cab pick-up truck barely fit in the driveway, not to mention the garage. We did get it in there once. There were about 3 inches in… Read more
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New Site Live!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Live! After several weeks of cutting and pasting, and a week of the sometimes hair pulling frustration of trying things that don’t work, 68andCounting.com is finally live on the new host. It’ll live here for at least the next three years. None of the comments from the old blog transferred… Read more
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Trivial Matters
Reading Time: < 1 minute We did it! For the second time in three tries Randy and I were part of a team (called Mixed Nuts for those of you who are interested) that won the monthly trivia contest at the Rotonda West HOA Community Center. You may not think that’s a big deal, and… Read more
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Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those of you who’ve known me a very (VERY) long time know that for the past 40 years I’ve been talking about a concept I dubbed Thinking 2 Steps Ahead (T2SA). In the early 2000s I even trademarked the phrase and designed workshops that I taught around the area to audiences… Read more
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Where There’s a Will…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Holy smokes I’ve had a good week. My niece and her family were here most of last week and our time together was delightful. They’re a nice family who follows directions well. I asked them to treat our home like an AirBnB, making themselves comfortable and at home because I wasn’t… Read more
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What’s Worth Your Energy?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. Some days I try to remember that as my energy level flags. Then I wonder if that’s why the sales of energy drinks these days are so brisk. Is the… Read more
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Check One Off the Bucket List
Reading Time: 5 minutes The bucket list cruise to the Panama Canal, so highly anticipated, is behind us. First, let me say that this 11-day cruise was very different, in a good way, from our first 4-day cruise experience in January 2023. You can read about that here. We liked the ship (Norwegian Joy) and… Read more