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
212 Keeping Up Financially Part 3
Will we have enough money to live out our life? Retired people all have to deal with this question. Seeing into the future is impossible. But we can make the best guess at what we may need. Some fact…
00:06:31 |
Sat 05 Feb 2011
211 Keeping Up Financially Part 2
Will we have enough money to live out our life? Retired people all have to deal with this question. Seeing into the future is impossible. But we can make the best guess at what we may need. Some fact…
00:07:03 |
Wed 02 Feb 2011
210 Keeping Up Financially
Will we have enough money to live out our life? Retired people all have to deal with this question. Seeing into the future is impossible. But we can make the best guess at what we may need. Some fact…
00:09:12 |
Fri 14 Jan 2011
209 Community College
We all want to lead an interesting life. Retirement gives us a chance to learn about anything we want. Community colleges are a place we may want to investigate.
00:05:51 |
Thu 06 Jan 2011
208 Positive Thinking?
Positive thinking has its limits. To doubt it is not fashionable but is certainly reasonable. Think about all the problems you may have avoided with a little more consideration. You may have retired …
00:06:36 |
Mon 20 Dec 2010
207 Medically Assisted End of Life
Death is something we all face. Suffering at the end of life is something that can be endured or avoided. It is our choice - in some states. "You Don't Know Jack" deals with this topic in a very powe…
00:08:15 |
Sun 12 Dec 2010
206 Friends, Then and Now
Retirement brings special challenges concerning friendship. The job is no longer there to provide an easy source for meeting new people and bringing us in daily contact with others. New sources must …
00:06:37 |
Sat 04 Dec 2010
205 Staying Focused
We live in a busy world. There are so many distractions or choices. When our job ends we can be overwhelmed with overchoice. Some of us choose to just lay low and stay home. There must be a way?
00:06:39 |
Sun 28 Nov 2010
204 Making the Most of It
"The unexamined life is not worth living". Eileen Allen is a living inspiration to all of us that hold Socrates beliefs. A recent visit with the author of "I Like Being Old" verifies her practice and…
00:06:25 |
Sat 20 Nov 2010
203 Ready to Learn
Retiring calls for trying something new. We may be ready to learn something today that has escaped us in the past; learn a foreign language, garden, paint, write or fulfill a secret wish. We can fill…
00:05:37 |
Sat 13 Nov 2010
202 Elections and Courage
Political elections take special effort on the part of voters; both to participate and then to accept the results. What can we tell our children when they become discouraged?
00:07:14 |
Fri 05 Nov 2010
201 If Everyone Else Lives In Poverty
It isn't much fun to have enough money to live well if everything around you is falling to pieces. We retired folks sure don't want the neighborhood to become a ghetto after we retire. Maybe we need …
00:07:42 |
Fri 29 Oct 2010
200 "Free At Last"
Many seem to fine that after spending a life time accumulating things they serve only as an anchor when we want to be free. Perhaps retirement is the perfect time to rid ourselves of more than just o…
00:06:51 |
Sat 23 Oct 2010
199 Health, Tai Chi and the Lost Wallet
Health and the practice of Tai Chi keep being touted in the press. Seeing the flowing beauty of actual Tai Chi can be memorable. Perhaps more memorable that loosing one's wallet. (first ran in 2008)
00:06:25 |
Sun 17 Oct 2010
198 Dogs and Retirement
Retirement may be a great time for having a dog. It can bring companionship and serve as a reason for getting some exercise. On the other hand, it may be the worst time to have a dog.
00:06:34 |
Fri 08 Oct 2010
197 Alarm Clocks and the News
Waking up to an alarm clock is not something retired people need to do. Neither do we need to wake up to an alarm radio broadcast of the news. Where does this word 'alarm' fit into a retired lifestyl…
00:06:32 |
Fri 01 Oct 2010
196 The Pacific Northwest
Choosing a place to retire is an opportunity and a challenge. We like to think we can make a good decision. A double murder in our back yard before we even moved in gave us second thoughts.
00:06:02 |
Fri 24 Sep 2010
195 Traveling by Plane
We have become use to flying around in what use to be friendly skies. Traveling by plane isn't what it use to be. It has not only became less enjoyable but now we find out it does a lot of damage to …
00:07:04 |
Tue 21 Sep 2010
194 Kicking Back Without Guilt
We like to think we are on the right track if we are busy. We are a busy culture. We like to do things. We have elevated it to new levels with multi-tasking. But what is to be said for just sitting s…
00:06:15 |
Fri 17 Sep 2010
193 What do you do?
Explaining to others what you do in retirement is not an easy task. People constantly ask that question but it is time consuming to answer it honestly.
00:07:02 |
Sun 29 Aug 2010
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