I viewed about 15 minutes of each of the infamous debates. I don’t take them too seriously because as we know, the way politicians get elected is not to tell us what they intend to do, but to tell us what they think we want to hear.       So a political campaign […]

     I retired to Pennsylvania because we had some family in the area, the cost of living is less than our old home in metropolitan New York, the winters are a little warmer, and it’s not so far away that we had to adjust to a different landscape, or a strange new lifestyle.   […]

     I haven’t posted for a long time. But I’m inspired by Confessions of a Grandma. Like me, she hasn’t been blogging lately. But recently she brought us up-to-date on her life and times. Spoiler alert: She seems very active and happy in Florida.      As for me, I’ve been doing the things that […]

     My wife and I know enough not to go out on the road on New Year’s Eve. But we don’t always know enough not to drive when the weather gets bad.      My wife B desperately wanted to drive up to New Jersey to see her grandkids the other day, especially since […]

     I was recently a guest on the podcast Awe-Inspired and Retired. We talked about all things retirement, from where we’re going to live, to what we’re going to do, to who we’re going to do it with . . . or what we called the “three likes” of retirement.      (You can now […]

     For the most part I have stopped bogging because . . . well, because I’ve gone on to other things. I’m more involved in my local center for learning in retirement. I’ve taken up pickleball. I still play golf. I do my daily back stretches and leg exercises.       My wife and […]

     We just got home from a road trip — three weeks from Philadelphia to Madison, WI, then back through Canada and upstate New York to a family gathering near Boston. We drove 2,500 miles in all. Oh … my aching back!      Aside from the reminder about my arthritic back and knees, […]

     My intention was to close down this blog (see my May 2023 post “Last Lines”), because I’ve written around 1200 posts, and — good grief! — how much can we say about Baby Boomers, retirement, or our personal lives?      But never say never. I have a few more topics that could […]

     We’ve all read about the last words of some famous people. For example, drummer Buddy Rich died after surgery in 1987.  As he was being prepped for the operation a nurse asked him, “Is there anything you can’t take?” And he responded, “Yeah, country music.”      Or the composer Gustav Mahler who […]

     They say that we older people need to keep our minds active, keep learning things. We’re supposed to learn a foreign language, or do crossword puzzles, or practice the piano.      I’ve always resisted learning things just because I’m “supposed” to; hence, my less-than-stellar career in algebra and my brief fling with […]