Last night, my husband and I discovered a real treasure. We were wanting some local Chinese food for dinner. Sounds simple enough, right? But you see, we’ve lived in our community for 27 years and we have never been able to find a decent Chinese restaurant. We’ve tried the big chain restaurant (which will remain …more

A relative forwarded an email she received listing discounts for seniors. I am sure there are many others out there but I thought I would pass these on. Make sure you confirm the discounts with the vendors before purchasing any product or service. Air, Rail and Bus: Airlines: Alaska Airlines: 50% off (65+) American Airlines: …more

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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” (Seneca) I suspected for a couple of years that ‘things’ within me were not too good, a once-enjoyable job had transformed itself into a draconian chore of almost Herculean proportion, my social existence too had entered a stage of wane – and as for realising any …more

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Retirement of the baby boomers has caused quite a ruse about when and how to retire sensibly. Many of these b-b’rs are finding out that what had coveted for so long is turning out not to be what they expected, so structured retirement has suddenly become a buzz-word. That is, they ease out of their …more

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The Memoir has made it. The Memoir is a resident on the Bestsellers list. Memoir writing is taught in your town, and not just at the local college. You even know someone who is working on a memoir, or a scrapbook, or a video, about themselves. The time is now to write your memoir. Your …more

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Home – the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered. Can you have two homes? Can you have two places in which you live; eat, sleep, recreate and connect? Of course, you can have two houses with the furniture, patio, driveway, etc. That’s easy enough. But can you have two homes? Can you have …more

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I retired from teaching at Southern New Hampshire University three years ago and had begun to work on my eighth book sporadically a few years before my retirement. It’s my first autobiographical writing because up to my retirement I wrote, instead, literary criticism and history, journalism, and fiction. But it seems to me the more …more

I am fast approaching retirement and spent a great deal of time thinking about it over the last few years. Am I really ready for a complete change of life? Am I ready financially? To retire or not to retire that is the question. This week I jotted down a list of my top reasons …more

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