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
931 The Dark Ages
When I was a kid my thoughts roamed on to include ideas that when these old people die off we will be left with only people who have been educated to rely on the scientific method and all that it off…
00:07:55 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
930 Risk It
Retirement itself involves a degree of risk. We don't know if we will be happy or not. We don't know if we will have enough income to live comfortably. We don't know if we will have enough income to …
Sun 20 Apr 2025
929 Murder Trial
Retirement allows us time to expand our horizons. New experiences may be closer than we think. You might want to check out your local courthouse and find out what trials are scheduled to start soon. …
00:08:25 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
928 Road Trip: The Vehicle
We wanted a rig that was relatively safe. We wanted airbags and all of that other fancy stuff. And as well as safety we wanted a bit of comfort. When one decides to take a road trip that could last a…
00:08:39 |
Sun 06 Apr 2025
927 Road Trip USA
Deciding to see America from the road is an easy choice to make when one enters retirement. It’s a big country and to drive around it takes a lot of time; time that most folks don’t have until they r…
00:08:17 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
926 More Questions Than Answers
"Why" has to be among the first words we learn. Little children have a way of repeating it over and over until we just wind up saying, "It just is. I don't know why.” It is strange how this simple ex…
00:07:17 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
925 Don"t Waffle
Words have a way of sometimes getting us into trouble; take the word waffling. Now that word has a negative connotation. No question about it. However, it might indicate a pause in the mind to consid…
00:08:07 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
924 Man Thinking
No wonder that retirement comes as such a shock to the system for many of us. We have never had to really engage our mind independently of family, school or job. It is no wonder that a person can be …
00:08:34 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
923 Poetry
Retirement gives us time to pause with poets both living and dead. We could do worse than spend some time in their world. Poetry has a way of staying with us. It becomes part of our blood. It is conc…
00:11:11 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
922 Staying Healthy (Part 2)
There are many ways around the mountain. I guess it is up to each of us to find our own route. We know that without good health life itself disappears. That tells us how important it is when we consi…
00:08:48 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
921 Staying Healthy
What is the key to keeping healthy in life? There are about as many theories as there are people. The older I get the less attention I pay to all of these "secrets to a long life". What I like are id…
00:08:07 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
920 The Lost Art of Conversation
Conversation depends on sharing some experiences that two or more people can discuss. Retirement presents a different problem. We don't see the same people every day. We don't have common goals. We t…
00:08:03 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
919 Imagination & What to Do
Imagine retiring and moving to Mexico. Last year I met this guy in Vancouver who was off to join his retired friend in Puerto Vallarta. The friend was living out his retirement dream. He was running …
00:07:30 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
918 Something New
Trying something new can be a real treat for retired people. It just takes getting up off of the couch and walking out the door. Sometimes that isn't as easy as it sounds but it can certainly add a n…
00:07:00 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
917 The Hot Generation
We don't have to wait for the future to see the results. Yet, many people call it false and talk of it like it is a fantasy. Our grandchildren's generation is being referred to as the "hot generation…
00:08:26 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
916 Doing Nothing & Guilt
That is it with retirement isn't it? We don't know what we are supposed to be or do. We have no parents to tell us what to do or not do. We have no teachers to direct us. And we have no bosses or sup…
00:07:42 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
915 Looking for Something to Do
I assume we all agree that we should all pay our fair share of taxes. We owe it to our country; we owe it to our children and we owe it to our founding fathers who struggled to insure life, liberty a…
00:09:10 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
913 Staying Focused
How can we stay focused or even get focused on something we really want to do? This is where priorities come in. We have to establish them with careful thought and approach them with dedicated effort…
00:07:58 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
912 Making the Most of It
Eileen examines life closely. There are things to worry about in life. There are setbacks, but seeds of a new beginning always seem to be present. There are people out there who have mastered the art…
00:07:23 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
911 Ready to Learn
Life is filled with examples of people who could not learn something and then at a different time they seem to master whatever it is. Retirement brings time into our lives when we are allowed to expl…
00:06:45 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
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