OK, we learn from our mistakes. Hopefully as we get older the frequency of mistakes significantly decreases while our wisdom from positive experiences increases. Generally, most of us incorporate some degree of comparison shopping when buying things. If it’s a big ticket item, we’re likely to do a more thorough cost comparison. We want to Continue reading
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#76 – Visitors and Travel
Later today we’ll be headed for the Nashville Airport to pick up our daughter and granddaughter for the weekend- their first visit to our TN home. The excitement level around here’s pretty high right now. Then Monday evening brother Doug shows up for a day with his new golf clubs to test out our mountain Continue reading
#75 – A New Job – Updates 2 and 3 (9 Aug)
Back in April I received a phone call that led to my pursuit of full time employment again- in a profession I fully enjoyed. Post # 71 dated May 10 (which includes Update 1) details what led to this point. Little had been heard about my potential employment since then. These last seven days there’s Continue reading
#74 – Living With Purpose, Part Two
Post #73 focused more on some basic mechanics of estate planning, while this post adds content on living with purpose to estate planning efforts. At least a couple of you will suggest that the “finding purpose” step should come first, and you would be right. I suspect many of you already have a good idea Continue reading
#73 – Living With Purpose- Revisiting Legacies and Estate Planning
It’s been three plus weeks since the last post. Two trips kept me away from the blog, but also gave me plenty to write about later. The travel log can wait another week…actually a couple weeks as it’s dawned on me that this post will likely be multiple parts. I’m combining content from previous posts Continue reading
#72 – More Travel
Awaiting a possible return to full time work (see previous post), I’m squeezing in some previously planned trips, although I still find it a challenge to spend the money. With Social Security now turned on, we’re back to a positive monthly cash flow. That solves a couple of psychological issues. Now if we could only Continue reading
#71 – A New Job – Update 1
I wanted to put this out last week to make a short interval between posts, but when you’re dealing with the US Government (USG) in anything related to hiring, even indirectly, just sit back and be patient. So, for now, this is an interim post to be updated soon…hopefully. Almost four weeks ago I received Continue reading
#70 – Update on Our Retired Living
Three weeks since the last post, my apologies! It’s been a while since I took a look back at the specifics of what retired life has been like for us, so here goes from the past couple of months:
#69 – Expanding on the Happiness Post
One of my brothers forwarded a March 2023 CNBC article highlighting a “Harvard Study on Adult Development” originated in 1938, and still going strong, to determine what makes people healthy and happy. It made me think back to this forum’s Post #51 from August 2022 titled “Happiness”. Background. The sources for Post #51 were Morgan Continue reading
#68 – Retirement Information Resources
A quick personal update first FWIW….cold weather puts me in a traveling mood, I guess, so during Jan/Feb I took off for trips to DC (twice), Hawaii and LAX/San Diego, in some cases to escape cold weather and in almost all cases to visit family/friends. Guess which trip Beth came along (hint: Hawaii hotel reservations Continue reading