Category: Retirement Transition

A very good friend of mine commented recently “it would be interesting if you went back and reviewed your blog posts to see if you agree with what you’d previously written.” Hold it. I know. That sounds as dry as toast. But he had latched onto something I’ve discovered is very real, which is the […]

Well, it’s been one year since I retired from active employment. The purpose of this post is to briefly reflect upon the events and learnings of the past year, as well as to discuss the plans for the coming year. Hopefully you’ll find it to be of interest and, perhaps, helpful in some way. As […]

Good morning, everyone! It’s now been six months since my retirement date. But, there have been so many milestones in the past twelve months that warrant mention. First, it was exactly one year ago we became full-time residents at our lake home. Plus, during the past year two of our children and their families have […]

Well, it’s now mid-May, and I’ve been in charge of my own routine for a little over four months. To begin with, four months is not very long. When I contemplate the passage of four months while working, it seemed to go by in a flash. Retirement has not been dramatically different in that regard. […]

Good day, everyone! It’s been a while since I logged a blog entry. To be honest, I haven’t felt compelled to add another entry until this morning. This lack of motivation could have been due to a variety of things, including I’ve been busy with other things, I didn’t feel I had much to add, […]

Good day, everyone! Two months have now passed since I became a full-time connoisseur of life. Besides the activities discussed in prior posts, our trip to Sweden to visit our youngest daughter game me the chance to dive into more books and podcasts related to retirement. Most interestingly, I stumbled upon the writings of Arthur […]

Good day, my friends! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything to the blog. I have learned that you need to write when the mood hits you. It is not something that can be easily forced. Well, today it is AGAIN below zero degrees outside and the mood hit me so it’s a […]

To begin with, one month is NOT enough time to really reflect on. Because the retirement celebrations were held the first week of January (some connecting still continues, in fact), because we’re still unpacking from moving to our home in Northern Minnesota, and due to other things that have arisen since the first of the […]

For this blog entry I’m going to focus on my second aspect of non-financial retirement planning: friends who helped upon the way. And by helped, I mean either supported, encouraged or introduced areas of exploration for me as I considered retirement and what it would mean for me. Peter Stathopoulos, mentioned in part 1 of […]

The way I think about it, there are two areas of preparation when it comes to retirement: financial and non-financial. In other words, can you afford the type of retirement you want and what you need to do to prepare for such a retirement. The financial preparation aspect gets a lot of press, in part […]