But What Now?

Some people dream about doing great things. Others just do them. This was on the back of the bus I followed most of the way home earlier today. It’s an advertisement for a local community college, but I am using it as an introduction to this post about volunteering because I think it fits so […]

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While I was counting down to the end of this year as being my retirement date, I wasn’t taking it completely seriously because I can only retire then if the agency I work for approves early outs (named the early out authority). Because I am in IT and the agency is going through so many […]

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by Minerva at Retirement Merry Go Round. Minerva writes that she was tagged by Ewa in the Garden and spent time documenting the blooms in her jungle garden. Instead, in Seattle, where the buds are beginning to pop and rhodies are blooming, we watched fat snowflakes fall from the sky this morning!
But, I have […]

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Today’s Seattle PI is running an article by Suzy Orman as part of her “Women & Money” syndication entitled “You can find many ways to get set for retirement.” She begins by making reference to a Wachovia survey reporting that more than half of the women surveyed “feel worried” about being prepared for retirement. I […]

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Hello from my hotel room in Portland, Oregon! I’m here on business again, or rather I’m somewhere on business again, and again, not doing a very good job of taking care of myself.
Last night before I went to sleep, while feeling overly stuffed after having dinner with my team, I wrote a list of […]

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I am reading a very good book by Marika and Howard Stone, Too Young To Retire. The thrust of the book is that retirement is an outdated concept. This is because we’re working longer, living longer and with more leisure time, strive for more meaning in our lives than ever before.
Retire the word Retirement
AARP disassociated […]

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