Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees
Retirement Talk is an audio podcast intended to help people who are retired, or considering retirement, to examine their own lives. We will consider retirement in all its facets - not just financial. We want to examine our own lives and those of others, who seem to have looked closely, made choices, and are pretty happy with the consequences We want to encourage thought and action.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 833
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
951 A Change of Direction
Two weeks ago the wife of a good friend of mine died. She was 66: three years younger than myself. Cancer. Two months elapsed between diagnosis and death. Two months. Sort of puts an edge on things.
00:07:39 |
Sun 14 Sep 2025
950 Changing Gears
Retiring calls for learning to shift gears in a big way. We may make a few mistakes. We may grind a few gears as we adjust, but change we must. We know we want to move in another direction but we may…
00:08:35 |
Sun 07 Sep 2025
949 Feet
"If you take care of your feet your feet will take care of you". Whenever I say that my wife and my grandchildren roll their eyes. I usually don't say it around anyone else. Feet are something we do…
00:06:42 |
Sun 31 Aug 2025
948 The Sky Is Falling
We retired people have one big advantage over others. We have been around the block. We have “seen it all before”. We do have some years behind us. We've seen many changes. We have a history. This …
00:08:01 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
947 A Time to Dream
Retirement offers us a chance to reignite the imagination concerning what we can do with our life. We are no longer young and we cannot aspire to some things that require a youthful body. But other t…
00:08:29 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
946 Movies
Retirement affords us a special time in life when we can pick and choose how we spend our time. One could do worse than making movies a big part of retirement. Music, dance, visual art and drama all …
00:08:18 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
945 Give Life a Poke
One time after a snowstorm I went with him to brush the snow off the wings of one of his planes. Under the snow the wings were covered in fur. He was trying to see if fur would change the performance…
00:07:38 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
944 Home Projects
Brenda and I had careers that were mental not physical. We worked mostly with our minds. We were teachers. When we retired one of our delights was to build things with our hands. We wanted to be able…
00:08:26 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
943 Money Thoughts
I know: money is important. But is it the only thing that is important? I recently read a study of happiness as it relates to money. Retired folks might want to give this some thought.
00:06:46 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
942 One Thousand Hours
I don't want to have any regrets. It takes a certain amount of forward thinking to conclude this. It also takes a certain amount of courage to realize it. Maybe the young man in the coffee shop did t…
00:06:38 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
941 Kindness, Gentleness, Compassion
We have to learn to be kind, gentle, and compassionate. We are not born possessing these qualities. This thought has been like a brain worm of late. I can't get theme out of my mind. These three qual…
00:08:07 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
940 Small is Beautiful
We don't have to have the biggest house, farm, car or anything else. They may not be the most desirable. As a matter of fact; in many instances small is much better - if not beautiful.
00:09:06 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
939 Talking Across Generations
We retired folks have a perfect opportunity to talk to younger people. We have had a lifetime of experiences and education. We have been down many roads; made good choices and bad. We just need to l…
00:07:50 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
938 The Coffee Shop
No matter what is scheduled, we go to coffee. It is a social hour for us. When we retired and relocated we took into consideration the distance to restaurants, grocery stores, drug store, book shops …
00:08:48 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
937 The Ten Thousand Hour Rule
Malcom Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker magazine, recently wrote a book where he suggested that if you do anything for 10 thousand hours you can be successful at it. I'm living proof that there ar…
00:07:43 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
936 Tai Chi
In a recent email to Retirement Talk, John from McLean, Virginia wondered if I could talk a bit about Tai Chi. He exercises regularly, is close to retirement age and feel a bit tense at his work. He …
00:09:54 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
935 What Am I Doing Here
Maybe the existentialists had it wrong. The real life of the absurd would be if we were to live forever. The idea of accepting our own death is a comforting step to take. It relieves us of youthful m…
00:08:08 |
Sun 25 May 2025
934 Moving to be Close to Children
Modern life demands mobility for education and employment. The family is uprooted. The extended family is a casualty. It all seems pretty academic until it happens to you. Suddenly, one day, it all b…
00:07:00 |
Sun 18 May 2025
933 Watermelon Burgers
This is one of the greatest things about retirement. When we are working at going to school or going to work our lives are pretty well filled up. We don't have time or energy to really consider some …
00:08:11 |
Sun 11 May 2025
932 Human Touch
Thoughts about increasing demands on our social security system brought a former vision of mine to the surface. Human Touch was the title of my Master’s thesis work. I wrote up a proposal to the Sta…
00:06:37 |
Sun 04 May 2025
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