But What Now?

Tonight at dinner my sweetie and I were talking travel, as we often do. Since this year we are planning a trip to Nepal, she shared a story about a man she met there in 1994. There is no romance in this story as she and her ex-husband shared the experience together.
Anyway, he grew up […]

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I recently came across an article in Entrepreneur.com called Hiring employees over age 50 is a smart move - if you do it right by Mark Henricks. According to this article, those of us in this age group have many more opportunities to choose from than we might have thought.
By 2010, “nearly a third of […]

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In the March 9th edition of Parade Magazine, Frank McCourt wrote a two page article called We All Can Have Second Acts (& Third!). I read it and hung onto it and read it again.
Mr. McCourt came to this country as an Irish immigrant. He initially earned his money picking up garbage. Knowing he […]

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I feel so busy, I spend so much time taking care of work business, I work at night, I work on the weekends and never seem to get it done. People depend on me to take care of certain things and I feel a responsibility to follow through.
Looking Forward to Retirement
Many people look forward to […]

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A retirement study released today by Transamerica reports that
“The majority (65%) of working Americans aged 50+ are becoming more comfortable with change and uncertainty as they grow older.”
As someone over 50, this doesn’t surprise me. In fact, when I read or hear that it’s something new that people in the workforce today will change […]

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LifeTwo has a series of humorous “aging backwards” blog posts. Today I enjoyed a fun post on sleeping with a couple of fairly unique tips for how to sleep better. My partner has used melatonin as a treatment for jet lag and she claims it works wonders to get her internal clock back on track. […]

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I have countdown clocks in a few places, including my work Outlook calendar. My Google countdown clock reports that as of today I have 298 days until my earliest possible retirement date. As the number goes down, the dreams in my head go up.
A Facebook friend wrote that I am too young to retire, that […]

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