This is a review of an interesting retirement-centric website, one with several useful tools for those approaching retirement, or who have recently reached this stage of life. The website is retirementwisdom.com While it’s a well-put-together site, keep in mind that this is just an entry portal to a company with a wide variety of tools….and Continue reading
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#87 – Employment Update
(April 2024 update is a couple of paragraphs below) One would have thought the word “employment” dropped out of my vocabulary following retirement in December 2021…. Quick background. Twenty-six months ago I retired from full time work and we moved down to Fairfield Glade in Eastern Tennessee (plateau living with lots of golf courses, lakes Continue reading
#86 – Ever Heard of “Blue Zones”?
“Blue Zones” are specific geographic locations where the human population has a significantly longer life expectancy than the global average. It’s a non-scientific term which is steadily gaining attention since the early 2000s. A 2004 Science Direct report on age research highlighted results indicating a specific area on the Italian island of Sardinia that had Continue reading
#85 – Happiness According to ChatGPT
OK, here’s an experiment. The below was not written by me, but rather by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform known as ChatGPT. The sole purpose of this post is to introduce you to one minor experiment about what this platform can do. I asked it to draft me a 300-400 word paper on Happiness- it Continue reading
#84 – Mr. Holland’s Opus
Following a ten day trip and a couple of weeks’ writing non-stop on a work project, I find myself at the end of January without a post since New Year’s Day. Better take a long look at my priorities…. This week we discovered that we had access to Disney+ streaming services as part of our Continue reading
#83 – Holidays
Happy New Year and God’s blessings to you for 2024! As I sat at my desk upstairs trying to figure out how to start this post, I looked out to see 24 deer just beyond our backyard. Not the best quality picture, taken within an hour of sunset on a cold/cloudy day, but a rare Continue reading
#82 – From Saving to Spending (Part 2)
My intent with this “Part 2” post was to delve deeper into the psychological influences on the transition from saving during our work force years to spending in our retirement years. The more I researched, the more it became clear that I was getting into areas over my head- plus it would probably make for Continue reading
#81 – A Great Fall Trip
A couple of weeks ago Beth and I headed up north on a 10 day trip up to the DC area which we knew would be enjoyable, but ended up being a whole lot better than expected. I’d like to say this is one of those typical retirement life trips, but it included a full Continue reading
#80 – From Saving to Spending
(I’ve edited this post which originally included a brief summary of a trip up to DC. This retirement subject, however, needs more room for content, so we’ll commit a separate post to the trip and add to this deserving subject) This retirement subject came up in a couple other posts, and if you spend time Continue reading
#79 – Breaking the Silence
Been almost two months since I visited my blog, wow. As mentioned in several of the last posts, I decided to return temporarily to full time work in a “business” I really enjoyed. It took a while to get started (the initial effort began in April with an unexpected phone call), but on 21 August Continue reading