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
393 Neighbors
Retired people tend to be around the house when not traveling. We linger by the mail box and talk to neighbors of weather, recent trips or cars on the street. Having good neighbors doesn't happen by …
00:06:37 |
Sun 07 Sep 2014
392 Help?
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help": frightening or comforting words. We need to think a bit about that. Truth is stood on it's head by cliches all too often.
00:06:35 |
Sun 31 Aug 2014
391 Exercise for the Brain
New studies indicate physical exercises do more for the mind than we might have imagined. Sure we can do crosswords or study a foreign language but perhaps we would be better off walking quickly arou…
00:07:01 |
Sun 24 Aug 2014
390 Working After Retirement?
We would all like to follow our bliss. It would be nice to be paid for doing what we love. Retirement may offer us this opportunity. It works for some.
00:06:24 |
Sun 17 Aug 2014
389 End of Life Choice
Ending one's own life is a choice we all make. We either do or we don't. The twists of life events sometimes make that choice shift in value. It is something we might do well to consider rather than …
00:07:07 |
Thu 31 Jul 2014
388 Personal Experience - Sherri Robinson
In this podcast I read a letter from a Sherri Robinson telling of her retirement experience. She is a listener and has given retirement some serious thought. Here she shares some of her ideas and sug…
00:05:58 |
Sun 27 Jul 2014
387 Frustration
Life has a way of throwing frustration into our life that is well grounded and frustration that has no basis. Regardless of cause frustration has to be confronted.
00:06:34 |
Sat 19 Jul 2014
386 Distractions
Creating and maintaining a retirement of one's own choosing isn't easy. Outside forces assault our own thoughts, intentions and actions constantly. Retaining a sense of self requires constant vigilan…
00:06:23 |
Sun 13 Jul 2014
385 Staying Fit?
Staying fit has come to be associated with physical fitness. But that isn't the only thing for which we need to be fit. We might want to keep that in mind as we add the years. It might make us feel b…
00:05:41 |
Sun 06 Jul 2014
384 Food and Retirement
Retirement brings with it time to Indulgence in what we like best and for many of us that is eating. Our health can suffer dramatically. We find ourselves unable to do much other than eat some more. …
00:06:55 |
Thu 26 Jun 2014
383 Death - Being Prepared
Sometimes there are subjects we just don't want to face. Death is one. We have a hard time considering or discussing our own death. There is a new approach that might be worth investigating called th…
00:07:11 |
Sat 14 Jun 2014
382 Dermatologist
Retirement comes with getting older as does a changing body. A dermatologist checks our surface for signs of hazards. The results of their check can result in a few temporary changes in our appearanc…
00:06:56 |
Sun 08 Jun 2014
381 Technology
Is it worth keeping up with technological changes as we age? We learn how to use one thing and then there is another that is suppose to do it better. How do we keep up? Are there any tricks? Or shoul…
00:07:15 |
Sun 01 Jun 2014
380 New Friends?
Friends make life. We wouldn't want to live alone. Sometimes we just drift apart, or one of us move or they die. At any rate we find ourselves wishing for some new friends. What to do?
00:06:48 |
Sun 18 May 2014
379 Upkeep
Upkeep is something that we must maintain throughout life. It isn't easy. Change can come so slowly that it escapes notice. Our life and everything around us can easily shrink and deteriorate around …
00:06:32 |
Sun 18 May 2014
378 Alaska - Go Now
The Land of the Midnight Sun attracts like a magnet. It is like a universal lifetime dream. After living there for twenty years and traveling back and forth over another 25 I can't understand why peo…
00:08:35 |
Sun 11 May 2014
377 Relating to Grandchildren
Communicating across generations is always a challenge. What can we do to stay connected to our children and children's children? We might have to change our ways. That is always a challenge.
00:07:13 |
Sun 04 May 2014
376 New Habits
Habits are what gets us in trouble. Or habits are what save us. They can be take us to where we want to go. Or they can lead us into the valley of misery. New habits can be established at any time in…
00:07:39 |
Sun 27 Apr 2014
375 Getting Around
Getting from one place to another can be a problem for all of us. The difficulty can increase as we age. What to do? It might be very wise to choose our place of residency very carefully. Getting aro…
00:07:17 |
Tue 22 Apr 2014
374 No Time to Shave
We men either grow a beard or shave. One or the other. There are no other choices. In many areas of our life we do have options. It is important to realize where we do and where we don't. We retired …
00:07:37 |
Sun 13 Apr 2014
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