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
767 Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
I have always believed that I did take the road less traveled by - and that it did make all the difference. But maybe I have been deluding myself. And you?
00:06:48 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
766 Stuck
We know when we are spinning our wheels. We know when nothing is happening in our lives. We know we need a change. Perhaps the problem isn't our being stuck, The problem is getting unstuck. Deciding …
00:08:09 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
765 Family Day
Canada is on to something with making Family Day a national holiday. It seems so appropriate and filled with meaning. Hopefully it will prompt many phone calls, trips or letters.
00:06:23 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
764 Reading in Retirement
Retirement introduces a special element to our reading life. We can feast over the entire reading realm. There are no limitations; sort of like our earliest experiences. We can read for pleasure alon…
00:08:35 |
Sun 23 Jan 2022
763 Regrets
Dealing with regrets is a topic that was suggested to me by a loyal listener. I thought I could deal with it but it is proving more difficult than I could imagine.
I like to look at the present and t…
00:08:21 |
Sun 16 Jan 2022
762 Limits
We got an email from a friend a few years ago when he was celebrating his 88th birthday in Sarasota, Florida. "Going to dinner with my granddaughter and her Dad. Got myself a massage and just got hom…
00:07:51 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
761 Finding Meaning in Retirement (2)
We know having meaning in our lives is important but sometimes we have trouble finding it. Many times It may be more of a problem of recognizing it. We may already have found meaning in our life and …
00:09:01 |
Sun 02 Jan 2022
760 Finding Meaning in Retirement
Yes, we retire. The parents, teachers, bosses and our own children no longer control us and they no longer give meaning to our lives. We are on our own. Now we must give meaning to our own lives.
00:08:08 |
Sun 26 Dec 2021
759 Watch Your Step
Kids fall down and skin their knees. Football players fall down and bounce up - usually. My mother fell down at age 89 and never regained her health. Her fall led to surgery and then the nursing home…
00:06:22 |
Sun 19 Dec 2021
758 The Devil is in the Details
Detail has never been my forte. Not in anything. As a member of the retirement community I find it most challenging and interesting to try to change this age old habit. Old habits become part and par…
00:07:35 |
Sun 12 Dec 2021
757 Miserable with Much
What brings us happiness is so very relative. If we have just finished eating food we don't like or aren't satisfied we can go crazy over something familiar and filling. If our hands are cold a good …
00:07:35 |
Sun 05 Dec 2021
756 Looking Ahead
Retirement offers a different challenge for us when looking ahead. We have never been down this road. We have our own little idiosyncrasies that may make our decisions different from anyone else. We …
00:07:37 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
755 Accepting a Loss
One thing we all learn as we grow up is that sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. It is the nature of a contest. It is the nature of life. It is a hard lesson to accept. Perhaps some people never…
00:05:41 |
Sun 21 Nov 2021
754 Meditation
A fellow colleague used to get up at 5:30 every morning so that she could meditate before work. She claimed it was better than sleep and that she, "Couldn't live without it". That might not be a bad …
00:07:34 |
Sun 14 Nov 2021
753 Ashes to...
What we do with ourselves or with our family or friends when death comes is important to some. I don't think it is important to the ones who die but it is to those that are left behind. We need to be…
00:06:25 |
Sun 07 Nov 2021
752 Memories?
Do we remember what has happened in our life? Or do we remember just parts of what happened in our life? The parts we like. Or do we remember what we wish had happened?
00:06:47 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
750 Time to Let Go
Some of us make aging difficult by refusing to accept it. It is just as silly as when we are on the other end and irritate people by refusing to "grow up".
00:06:58 |
Sun 24 Oct 2021
750 The We Party
Sometimes I think we should start a new political party entitled "We". It would be based on the premise that we should help and care for one another. That we all have rights and responsibilities to e…
00:08:55 |
Sun 17 Oct 2021
749 Milestones
Retirement has to be one of the more significant milestones we can experience in life. They give us a sense of where we are. They give us something to see, something to point towards or something on …
00:07:45 |
Sun 10 Oct 2021
748 Grit
Grit has always been one of my favorite words. It means business; nothing fancy here. But the word has reappeared lately relating to child rearing and educational philosophy. There is no doubt in my…
00:08:34 |
Sun 03 Oct 2021
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