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
910 Free At Last
"I don’t own a thing", said Diane Athill, a British editor and writer. She has just recently moved into an assisted living facility. "And I love it”, She added, "For the first time in my life I feel …
00:07:27 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
909 Rich and Poor
Poverty isn’t good for anyone. When the least fortunate suffer we all suffer. Who would want to live in a mansion that is surrounded by squallier?
00:08:38 |
Sun 24 Nov 2024
908 The Pacific Northwest
For us it was: a temperate climate not hot and not cold. We wanted a university in the town and we wanted it on the west coast, close to mountains and salt water, close to a big city (Seattle and Va…
00:06:56 |
Sun 17 Nov 2024
907 Finding Meaning in Retirement
Retirement is like that. Life is like that. It isn’t that you grow Dahlias, write the great American novel, or build a better boat. The questions to answer are: Does it work for you? Are you committe…
00:08:48 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
906 Meaning & Purpose
Giving meaning to life is important for all of us. We need to feel that we have something for which life is worth living. If ancient religion doesn’t provide it then something else must.
00:07:45 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
904 Vegetarian at 67
One thing about retirement: it gives us time to slow down and try different ways of living than those that have dominated our life through custom, convenience and habit. "Thanksgiving without turkey?…
00:06:43 |
Sun 27 Oct 2024
903 Denial & Truth
"The worst thing you can do is lie about something. Don’t deny something that is true. If people can’t trust you to tell the truth then we lose all trust. That would be the very worst thing. Do you u…
00:08:00 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
902 Friend Turnover
A friend gave me a bottle of wine maybe 50 years ago. "It is really good wine" he said. And then added, "If you open it when you have a good friend over it will be all the better". How true.
00:05:04 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
901 Retirement & Expectations
In the younger phase we are always being asked what we are going to do in life. The question usually refers to a career plan. In the last half or so of life we are usually asked what we are going to …
00:07:27 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
900 A Second Opinion
Health decisions seem to mount as we move towards and in retirement. We are faced with choosing between alternative treatments. What to do? Where do we turn for advice? Most of the time, we can readi…
00:07:59 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
899 Bicycling & Retirement
It always amazes me that we can do all of our little errands and at the same time get terrific exercise. The papers and magazines are filled with articles that report about the effect of exercise on …
00:08:55 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
898 Being Taken Advantage Of
We like to trust people. That is a good thing. However, sometimes we can be taken advantage of if we are not careful. As we grow older this can become a very serious problem.
00:07:45 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
897 What do You Do
I know some people who say they don’t know what they would do if they were retired. My experience tells me that you will, or can be, very busy. Busy, but busy doing exactly what you want to.
00:06:56 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
896 Retirement and Freedom
Freedom has all sorts of limitations. Retirement does open up new doors that were always closed. We now gain an advantage in life we have never experienced. But we must be aware of and willing to ope…
00:07:07 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
895 Being Alone in Retirement
Social isolation is a major problem for retired people. We can lose all emotional contact with others. We lose people to care about. Our phone never rings. We sit at home alone; perhaps get a dog, a …
00:07:50 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
894 Doing the Dishes
Daily routines present themselves to us - like it or not. What's to be said concerning these daily tasks? Are they to be avoided; to let slide, to dread? Or are they jobs that can be done and even en…
00:08:14 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
893 How Much Is Enough
How much money is enough? That’s a pretty good question. When people consider retirement, that is always first and foremost in their minds. They just don’t seem to know how much is enough. There seem…
00:08:00 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
892Flat Earthers
How do we determine truth from fiction? We still have some people among us who are "Flat-Earthers". When it comes to politics, well, we have people telling us everything. Who are you supposed to beli…
00:06:12 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
891 Birds
I think of retired people I know who love to watch birds. They get outside; fair or foul. They travel around the world to see different species. They send money to organizations to help protect birds…
00:08:11 |
Sun 21 Jul 2024
890 Music
Does music come to mean something else when one retires or moves into the later stages of life? Perhaps Nietzsche’s most acceptable aphorism was: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
00:08:33 |
Sun 14 Jul 2024
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