Thanks for your service, by Rich Paschall He had been in the business for almost 40 years. The last twenty-seven of those with the same company. He liked his job and thought he was good at it. In just a… Read More ›
Retirement
AT THE OLD BALLGAME – A REBLOG THAT’S RIGHT ON TARGET – By RICH PASCHALL
With the Red Sox down in St. Pete playing the Rays who this year, are very much IN it as we head into playoff time, this seemed like a very appropriate rerun. Harold takes a road trip to the Trop,… Read More ›
THE FUTURE? OY VAY!
Fandango’s Provocative Question #130 You want to know what I’m worrying about? You mean whether or not there is going to BE a planet to live on? Other than that? Let us start with the simplet, yet somehow most heartfelt expletive… Read More ›
PAGING PONCE DE LEON
Carly Simon is in my head a lot these days singing, “You’re So Vain”. After decades of seeming perpetual youth in my career as a reporter, the portrait in my attic has become an illusion. It’s something with which most people… Read More ›
SWEET OLD NONSENSE
Sweet old lady is an oxymoron. It’s one of those myths, probably perpetrated by childhood memories of grandma, a rosy film smoothing over the lumps and bumps. Age makes everyone cranky. Men get grouchy. Women get snarky. Old people are impatient and significantly less… Read More ›
CAN I RETIRE FROM RETIREMENT?
We keep planning vacations. The problem? We are retired, so vacations are not much different than life. If we had more money and could travel, maybe that would be different, but prices have gone up, we’ve had a year plus… Read More ›
SOUP AND SANDWICH – RICH PASCHALL
There were many stories about Harold, the persnickety planner from the Midwest who retired to an orderly life in Florida. This pre-pandemic adventure was the first. Everyone who knew Harold would agree; he was an orderly man. Everything about his… Read More ›
I AM HOME – By RICH PASCHALL
A piece of home alone fiction by Rich Paschall The alarm went off at 6 am as usual. Instead of hitting the snooze bar, George turned off the alarm and got up. It was Wednesday, trash collection day in the small… Read More ›
A NEW STRATEGY FOR LIFE – Marilyn Armstrong
The strategy and rhythm of life are different between your working years and retirement. Garry reminded me that he’s busy. By this he means he’s reading two books — one audio, the other print. He’s trying to keep up with… Read More ›
LOSING EVERYTHING – Marilyn Armstrong
A lot of people figure that everyone “retires” on their own terms in their proper time. That hasn’t been true in our world. Certainly not in Garry and my world. Garry lost his job because the company he worked for… Read More ›
WHEN YOU GET TOO OLD TO BE COST-EFFECTIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
DISCOVERING I’M PART OF THE EMERGING DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE (ALSO LEFTWING, SOCIALIST, AND NO DOUBT COMMUNIST) If you have asthma or any kind of chronic medical problem that requires continuing care and medication, that’s the message you are getting. We have… Read More ›
THE MANUAL YOU DON’T HAVE – Marilyn Armstrong
Last night, someone I know and who should know better, complained that Olympus, from whom he bought his camera, should fire the tech writer. Because there was no manual. There was a booklet that listed the options but didn’t explain… Read More ›
TIME OFF AND RETIREMENT – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Word Prompt: Time Off Periodically, we go to retirement parties. Well, not so much now because most of our similar-age friends are already retired. For a long time, it was all retirement parties all the time. Except for the… Read More ›
ANOTHER YEAR ON A FIXED INCOME- Marilyn Armstrong
We got our taxes done. This used to be a big deal because we got so much money back at the end of the year. Then Reagan changed everything and we got back less than half we’d gotten in the… Read More ›
SHINING AGAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
I just read a really interesting post on Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo called: SHINE. In her final paragraphs she said: Don’t we all wish to be loved and accepted for who we are in our entirety? Yet we hide the… Read More ›
GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK – Rich Paschall
Thanks for your service, Rich Paschall He had been in the business for almost 40 years. The last twenty-seven of those with the same company. He liked his job and thought he was good at it. In just a few… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 