What I Wish I Knew Before I Retired
I am pleased (and a little nervous) to be invited to participate in Donna’s Sunday Guest Post Series. The quality of the previous guest posts is both a blessing and a curse. I am honored to be included among them and afraid I may not live up to the precedent set. But fear be damned—here… Continue reading Sunday Guest Post Series: ‘So What? Now What?’
I’m Debbie from Deb’s World. I’m excited that Donna has invited me to share my thoughts in her Sunday Series: Favourite Retirement/Lifestyle bloggers. I’ve been a great fan of Donna’s blog for ages now. Her posts and support helped keep me sane in the early days when I was facing my redundancy and was very… Continue reading Sunday Guest Post Series: ‘Deb’s World’
What do retired people do all day? What exactly is “retired” anyway? Better yet, what should retired people do all day? Are you retired and living the “life?” Have you retired and are feeling financial pressure and lack of motivation to do things? Or are you newly retired and still playing catch-up with your new… Continue reading Second Wind Leisure Perspectives: Some Days in the Life of an Almost-Retired Person
When Donna offered me the opportunity to participate in her Sunday Blogging Series, I jumped at the chance. I have been following Retirement Reflections for quite a while and I always find her posts smart, thoughtful, and wonderfully engaging. Having the chance to mingle with others who follow her – some who I may not… Continue reading What’s So Challenging About Retirement?
After months – no, years -- of planning, I finally have walked through the door to retirement. I have received my last paycheque. In a couple of weeks, I will pack up my office at work. I have bought a house in a different province, in a community closer to our kids and grandkids. And… Continue reading Over the Threshold into Retirement
Thank you, Donna, for inviting me over to participate in your Sunday Series. It is a pleasure, and an honor, to be called one of your favorites. My ego is bursting! A retirement lifestyle? At 42-years-old, I am not retired, although many people might think differently based on the lifestyle I have been living since… Continue reading Creating a Lifestyle Catered to You
How often do you get asked to say something nice about yourself, or to promote your best attributes, and find it one of the most difficult subjects to talk about? Granted, not everyone will find the subject of promoting themselves difficult, but many, including myself, find it a route full of potholes, bumps and barriers,… Continue reading Conquering the Monsters of Life
When Donna asked if I would write a guest post, I was a little taken aback. What exactly was my blog about anyway? I had no idea how to answer this question. Unlike my life, which is rather organized and definitely goal oriented, my blog is not. When I first started blogging in 2014, I… Continue reading Dream, Dare, Do!
Anabel Marsh is a 60ish retired librarian from Glasgow in Scotland Do you remember starting school? I do. Before then, I had spent my time playing with my friends and my little sister – now I was constrained. I remember feeling, though I couldn’t have expressed it, that I would never be free… Continue reading The Glasgow Gallivanter
I always said that I would retire when hell froze, and I’d become a blogger on the twelfth of never. After making these unequivocal statements, I retired two years and four months ago at age 55, and I have written 87 posts in my first eight months of blogging. All of which means that I… Continue reading Never Say Never: The Tale of a Reluctant Blogger
Retirement Reflections 