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
093 Recording Stories - "On The Loose"
Many of us imagine ourselves recording stories of ourselves, or someone else, before it is too late. It is a great thing to do in the retirement phase of life. In this retirement podcast, Dick Smith…
00:06:28 |
Thu 10 Jul 2008
092 Suicide - A Final Decision
Suicide is a topic that is rarely discussed.This retirement podcast is not taking an advocacy position but is just relating the story of four people I know who have chosen this path. It springs from …
00:08:30 |
Thu 03 Jul 2008
091 Aging and Frustration
Frustration seems to be part of life. Retirement and being a Senior Citizen doesn't make one immune to sleepless nights and worry over trivial matters. Hopefully, with all of our life experiences, w…
00:07:02 |
Thu 26 Jun 2008
090 The Cleanest Wash - Housekeeping Excellence
Retirement gives us time to find the beauty in former daily routine. Jackie Spinks takes a moment to reflect on a time when life was hard and people were close. The Monday morning wash set the tone f…
00:06:25 |
Thu 19 Jun 2008
089 Slow Down and Pick Up the Pace
Having a retirement of our own choosing is what most of us desire. We want time in our life to do whatever we choose. Other people and events have a way of under mining this dream of independence. W…
00:06:45 |
Thu 12 Jun 2008
088 Senior Memoirs Writing Group
Retired people and seniors have experiences and knowledge that needs to be shared. We all need to be heard and we all need to listen. Dick Smith shares with us his current experience in a memoirs wri…
00:06:06 |
Thu 05 Jun 2008
087 Staying Fit in Retirement
Staying fit is needed throughout life. Enjoyment of retirement calls for special attention to this need. Luckily, we have a head start on all other segments of society. We've had more practice.
00:06:15 |
Fri 30 May 2008
086 Food, Weight, and Retirement
Retired people like to eat. We have time and tastes that make good eating possible. The problem: eating too much good food . It is easy to, "do lunch". It is easy to linger over a good meal. It is ea…
00:07:12 |
Thu 22 May 2008
085 Writing a Book - with a Young Child
Dick Smith shares a story of a retirement activity that might be well used by many of us. Writing a book with a grandchild, or young child at a school, might be just the thing to create a little myst…
00:08:26 |
Thu 15 May 2008
084 Being Prepared - for Death
Death happens to each of us. Lying silently, tied to a container of drugs, in a nursing home for days or weeks waiting for death to finally end our pain is one way. There are many ways to die. Think…
00:07:33 |
Thu 08 May 2008
083 Does Retirement Call for a Dermatologist?
Physical beauty is of paramount importance most of our lives. With age comes retirement and hopefully wisdom. We learn that there are more important attributes to beauty that the physical. This may b…
00:07:16 |
Thu 01 May 2008
082 Looking Back - 60 years
Jackie Spinks is my guest. Her recent conversation has focused on the 1940s and her memories of why she formed opinions she held at that time.
00:06:41 |
Thu 24 Apr 2008
081 Birds
Retirement and birds; how do they fit together? When four birds are killed by flying into my windows glass during breakfast, it got me thinking. Retirement may be a great time to speak up on behalf o…
00:07:17 |
Thu 17 Apr 2008
080 Aging - and Music
From birth to death, music is a part of life. The love of one type of music seems to be every changing. Is there yet another door into the world of music? Perhaps retirement offers us another, yet un…
00:08:11 |
Fri 11 Apr 2008
079 Technology - Keeping Up
Technological changes keep coming at us. Some retired folks give up, What's a person to do? Should we become exhausted chasing something that never stops, or, kickback and let the world roll on with…
00:08:09 |
Thu 03 Apr 2008
078 The Good Ol' Days - Dentistry
Jacki Spinks look back with clear vision at part of what makes up our past. Time in the dentist's chair was all part of the "good old days". Lets be honest.
00:05:44 |
Thu 27 Mar 2008
077 Friends
We all have moments when we think we don't have enough friends. Where can we get some new friends? That is a question that is often asked. Maybe if we look back we will find direction to developing n…
00:07:07 |
Thu 20 Mar 2008
076 Learning to Relax
Retirement gives us time to examine ourselves better than ever before in our lives. Living with tension in our body can be something that has developed over a lifetime. We may not be aware of what …
00:06:49 |
Wed 05 Mar 2008
075 Retirement and Upkeep
It is easy to let things slide. The paint on the house ages. The drapes fade and sag. The belt gets tighter around the waist. Upkeep is need for the house, furniture, body and the mind. Neglect upke…
00:07:30 |
Thu 28 Feb 2008
074 War Stories - A Place and A Time
Telling old stories to folks that aren't interested is an open pit for retired folks. Dick Smith talks of the need for the telling and yet the care concerning when and where the telling takes place.
00:05:48 |
Fri 22 Feb 2008
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