But What Now?

I was delighted to see an article in this month’s Fast Company called Medical Leave by Greg Lindsay. The article is about the state of health care in other parts of the world. Bumrungrad, located in Bangkok, Thailand was showcased in the article and is my personal favorite, mostly because I have been there numerous […]

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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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So, you’re retired now. All of your co-workers who you have been friends with are still working and your interests are beginning to diverge. Or you’ve been retired so long that you no longer know many of the people you used to work with. You’ve made new friends and moved on.
Or maybe you haven’t. Here’s […]

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I just did a search on Amazon for retirement books published in 2007. I scrolled through about 100 of them which were sorted by relevance before they weren’t all that relevant anymore. That’s nearly 100 books on retirement published in 2007 alone!
I have a few retirement books on my own bookshelf that I’ve found useful […]

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I am reading 2 books at the same time. One is by my bedside and the other by my chair in the living room. Both are helping me to achieve some sort of peace of mind right now. They are both by Ernie Zelinski and I wholeheartedly recommend both.
I am so ready for retirement, it […]

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In today’s Seattle Times, Investing columnist Scott Burns answered a question by a reader asking about what his benefits will be based on and if he will take a reduction in benefits due to early retirement.
The good news is that there is no reduction. Social security benefits are based on how many years worked along […]

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