Category: Retirement
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Sedona to Sin City
Reading Time: 6 minutesLiving in Florida makes us Flatlanders. Our house sits at Elevation 12’ above sea level which we love because that means we don’t have to worry about flooding (or buying flood insurance). Everywhere we look, the landscape is pretty level. It saves a lot of physical exertion when walking. But if I’m… Read more
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The Mother Road
Reading Time: 4 minutesRoad Trips are an American tradition. Deciding to do an Epic Grand Adventure Road Trip for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration was a compromise between our aborted attempt, just after our retirement 5 years ago to hit the road in a travel trailer, and taking an expensive trip/tour to parts of the… Read more
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When It’s Time for a Senior Living Community
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we get to retirement age, if we’re lucky enough to have parents who are still living, often times there begins a role reversal that is quite interesting for all involved. I wrote about it 18 months ago in a post linked here. Six months after that when I went to Wisconsin… Read more
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The Pain of Rebounding
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe got the rebounder I mentioned in last week’s short post. I got on it thinking I would bounce for just the 2 minutes they said was all it took to do a complete flush of the body’s lymphatic system. Two minutes! Heck….anyone can do anything for two minutes, can’t they!?… Read more
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Rebounding?
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes something you’ve never heard of before comes into your world, and then you see it everywhere even though you never noticed it before. That’s what happened recently with rebounding. Randy sent me a Facebook reel (that’s a really short video, in case you didn’t know) about how rebounding is really good… Read more
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What’s the Payoff?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve always had this theory about why the government passed a law against age discrimination. I don’t think age is the root problem when an older employee gets let go, downsized, canned, forced out, or whatever the politically correct description is these days. My theory is that it’s the attitude so many… Read more
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Danger! – The Aggressive Pursuit of Comfort
Reading Time: 5 minutesDon’t we wait our entire working lives for retirement? Not consciously of course, especially when we’re younger and in the prime of that aforementioned life. But we’re aware from the time we begin working that we need to think about that upcoming season called retirement. That awareness is primarily concerned with means… Read more
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The Truth About Aging
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomewhere in our internet browsing adventures recently Randy and I discovered Gary Brecka. Brecka has an unusual, fascinating, and compelling story about how he came to start a podcast called The Ultimate Human. He’s a non-physician human biologist whose life work has been the study of how the human body does,… Read more
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Thought Bubbles
Reading Time: 1 minuteYesterday I had a great idea for today’s short post. Then I forgot what it was. Randy has a theory. He believes our thoughts exist in another dimension in bubbles that float all around us. They’re attached to us with something like the glue used on sticky notes. As we age, that… Read more
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That Strange Freedom-Like Feeling
Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore I get into the meat of this post, I want to make something as clear as a bell. I am not complaining. What I have to say is merely observation. If you didn’t see my Friday post that sparked this one, read that first by following this link. I think this,… Read more