Category: Retirement
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What’s Worth Your Energy?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 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 energy… Read more
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Check One Off the Bucket List
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 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 the… Read more
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get out… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast weekend my sister Lisa and I crashed the Lifestyle Visit my brother Denny and his wife Marlene made to The Villages in central Florida. Lisa and I have both lived in Florida for a while now and have, of course, heard about The Villages. Neither of us knew much about it… Read more
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Project Linus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou remember Linus from the Peanuts cartoon? He’s the kid dragging the blanket wherever he goes. Turns out Linus is the poster boy for a national project I recently found out about. And this worthy project is right up my alley. The mission of Project Linus two-fold. First, to provide love,… Read more
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It’s Time to Indulge!
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe spend most of our lives doing what we should do whether it’s what we want to do or not. In 1998 I had an epiphany when, at a corporate retreat for a company on which I was senior executive staff, a workshop facilitator asked the question…”whose life are you living?” That… Read more
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My Happy Place
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou all know I love the beach. The colors, the sun, the warmth, the water, the sand, the sounds, the possibilities of adventure, I love everything about the beach. But I learned something more about myself this week. A week ago today I went to the plastic surgeon and, after 12 weeks… Read more
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A Blast From the Past
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRandy and I are heading back to Camdenton in a few weeks. While there we’re going to attend a Doobie Brothers concert, featuring Michael McDonald. We can’t wait to experience a blast from the past seeing one of our favorite bands from our formative early adult years. When Randy and I… Read more
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The Luxury of “People” (I Can Only Dream)
Reading Time: 4 minutesNot all that long ago my friend Michele and I were passing the time at the beach by brainstorming what we’d do with all that money if we won the lottery. I’ve written about the peripheral issues of that topic before, linked here and here. On that day, though, we were discussing… Read more
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What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI don’t know what it is about retirement. Maybe my mind is not cluttered anymore with all the things I need to think about and retain now that I’m not committed to a paying job for most of my waking hours. Or maybe it’s just that, like the old joke about how… Read more