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
747 Retirement & Longevity
Good health will end. Life will end. We need to consider that in our decisions about what we are doing with our life on a daily basis. A recent statistical study shows I have about five more years o…
00:07:28 |
Sun 26 Sep 2021
746 Reconnecting
One of the pleasures of retirement is hearing a voice from the past calling you to re-establish contact. Our work life sometimes reaches out into our retirement life and touches us. It has a way of w…
00:05:48 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
745 Recognition
Popular culture focuses on the youth. Life goes through a continuing process of replicating itself. Of course that is good - in a way. But hard to accept when you are the one being discarded.
00:07:37 |
Sun 12 Sep 2021
744 Neighbors
Neighbors are important and we might all find more comfort in life by engaging those close by rather than spending all of our time reaching across the world via Facebook for friends. We could at leas…
00:07:10 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
743 The Story
Everyone has stories to tell. Technology makes it possible for all of us to record our stories and share them with grandchildren and others. We love to tell them and we love to hear them.
00:08:28 |
Sun 29 Aug 2021
742 Why Retire?
I always just assumed that most people would be just like me and look at retirement as a gateway into freedom. Freedom to make a life, or create a life of your own choosing. Well, I was wrong. And wr…
00:08:26 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
741 Getting Around
When it comes to retirement and getting around, the best answer seems to be to choose your location carefully. If you can walk and find anything you might need, or want, the problem of getting around…
00:08:11 |
Sun 15 Aug 2021
740 Deciding to be Happy
Within two days the whole world had turned. She was receiving lots of smiles back. People were laughing and talking with her. She was soon being invited to coffee or lunch. The next 14 years were ver…
00:07:31 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
739 I Can Fix It
Time to slow down and fix something is available to us in retirement. We do not have to rush off, wake to an alarm clock, punch a clock, or get to bed. We do not have to do as we are told or expected…
00:07:40 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
738 A Retired State of Mind
What we learned as a teenager, a college student, a mature adult, a parent, and citizen intertwines and forges a strong yet pliable state of mind.We can afford the time to sit back and consider. A re…
00:07:52 |
Sun 25 Jul 2021
737 Good Ol' Days
"The good ol’ days". Did the good ol’ days ever exist? I've heard people talk about them all my life and yet I have never had a desire to revisit any of my old days.
00:07:28 |
Sun 18 Jul 2021
736 Lists
Retirement is a time when a list might be as important as ever. As we enter the latter stages of life our time becomes more important. That is why we have a tendency to slow down. We don't want to ru…
00:08:00 |
Sun 11 Jul 2021
735 It's Magic
Maybe retirement is the time to become a magician. Or whatever else you dreamed of when you were a child. Or whatever you dream about now that you are retired.
00:08:01 |
Sun 04 Jul 2021
734 Vacations
Being retired doesn't mean that vacations are meaningless. They work for us just like they do for others. They recharge our batteries. They bring freshness into our minds and bodies. They help us re-…
00:06:46 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
733 Exercise for the Brain
Most intriguing is this connection between physical exercise and the brain. The common assumption is that exercise benefits the muscles and cardiovascular system. This is true, but the effect exercis…
00:07:26 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
732 Annual Rituals
These annual rituals seem to stay with us throughout life. I know that rituals are good things to have in one's life. They tie us together. They span generations. They remind us of those that have co…
00:07:20 |
Sun 13 Jun 2021
731 Senior Moments?
I can't remember how many times I have forgotten something. It must number in the millions or at least the hundreds of thousands. "Senior Moments" some folks call them. l don't like that label. I've …
00:05:49 |
Sun 06 Jun 2021
730 Retirement/ Caregiving
Sometimes I think being retired and being a caregiver are synonymous. Perhaps not synonymous but at least closely related. Retirement usually comes to us in our sixties and it is at that same age tha…
00:08:00 |
Sun 30 May 2021
729 Ownership of Your Own Life
When the end nears and you ask the question; "Did I live as I wanted?" or "Did I do what I wanted in my retirement years?" it would sure be nice to be able to answer with a firm "yes".
00:06:44 |
Sun 30 May 2021
728 Look Around
Vision is an amazing thing! There - I've said it. I may keep bumping into things and occasionally fall off my bike but part of my retirement has to include pausing to look around.
00:08:17 |
Sun 16 May 2021
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