Tag: retirement
What No One Taught Me In School
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Retirement is commonly referred to as the golden age, but I truly believe it is a new kind of commencement. Life along the way continues to teach us lessons and retirement is no exception. Life is filled with pop quizzes. I feel that I am enrolled in the University of…
The Rhythms of Retirement in France
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Living a retired life in France has been an experience both familiar and transformative. Having spent enough time here to settle into the rhythms of retirement in France, I’ve realized that though the setting is different the experience of my days still carries threads of who I’ve always been. Routine…
Packing to Move to Europe
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The trip is finally starting to take shape day by day and becoming more of a reality than a fantasy. It’s officially on the calendar now, a big bright bold reminder that this adventure is happening. I’m talking about it with family and friends more casually now, almost like it’s…
Ziplining – A Thrilling New Adventure
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I must share what I did yesterday which was so beyond thrilling and sprinkled with a bit of fear, ziplining, a thrilling new adventure. I have had a long-standing fear of heights. Last week I was speaking to a close friend who has been diagnosed with a curable but long-term…
Considerations For Retirement
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I think it is interesting to reflect how for both men and women retirement has changed throughout decades. Women in the U.S. were not able to have their own checking account until 1974. It’s hard to believe that was not that long ago. Technically, women were able to open a…
Reflecting On My Past Work
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Over the past decades, having gone through many different obstacles as well as experiencing happiness and successes. One looks back and realizes the importance of the memories we have collected over time. Our families (some of them), our children, friends (in some cases they are our chosen families) and of…
A Friend Through All Seasons: Through Thick & Thin
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As I am writing this blog, my trip to France is only a month away. When I started counting down there were 66 days left. Having but a month left before the trip, a dear friend, who has been a friend through all the seasons, and I decided to squeeze…
Here it is, retirement!
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Retirement is often seen as a period of status quo. It’s time when your life purpose is behind you a period viewed as a gradual slowing down before your eventual flat line. How dreadful!! In other words, a sort of waiting room phase. Societal thinking and norms about this phase…