Category: Retirement
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The Unusual, Round Place We Call Home
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen 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 the… Read more
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How Many Cars Does a Retired Couple Need?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen 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 both… Read more
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New Site Live!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLive! 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 over.… Read more
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Trivial Matters
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe 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 in… Read more
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Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutesThose 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 of… Read more
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Where There’s a Will…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHoly 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 going… Read more
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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