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
847 Retirements Many Roads
I think about all of the different roads one may choose to take in retirement and it is almost overwhelming. It is hard to make that choice. Perhaps that is why many of us don’t do much. We just can…
00:08:37 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
846 Beauty of Routine
According to Aristotle are good people because we have created good habits. We need to carefully consider what it is we are doing with our life, and then choosing the right actions we need to make t…
00:08:18 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
845 Heroes
I had a great talk with a guy one time while sitting around a fire on the Serengeti Plan about heroes. This guy, Don Hill, surprised me by confessing to his strong need to lead a heroic life.
00:08:50 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
844 The Coffee Shop
Retirement should include some time for indulgence. Bertrand Russell the great British mathematician and philosopher once said; " The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time".
00:09:30 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
843 Fall Road Trip
A road trip calls. Every fall season we get the urge to head out on the open road. I never want to go and talk badly about it but my wife knows enough to push ahead. As soon as I leave the house on t…
00:07:04 |
Sun 20 Aug 2023
842 Taking One's Own Life (Part 2)
Taking One's Own Life (Part 2)
This is a follow up on episode 836 entitled "Taking One’s Own Life". I recently received the following letter from a listener concerning this topic which I feel had a…
00:07:13 |
Sun 13 Aug 2023
841 Retirement by Projects
Our retirement has been marked by one project after the other. They have come to form a method for our approach to retirement. They give us direction and purpose. They also give us a way of moving th…
00:09:07 |
Sun 06 Aug 2023
840 Retirement & Neighbors
Maybe our good luck with neighbors comes from the six foot high cedar fence that encircles the property. It was there when we bought the place. Maybe ‘good fences do make good neighbors’.
00:07:22 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
839 "Here To Help"
The most terrifying words we could hear would be, "There is no government. You’re on your own." Just close your eyes and try to imagine that for a minute. It won't be a pretty picture.
00:07:25 |
Sun 23 Jul 2023
838 Exercise for the Brain
I find that if I really want to do something good for my brain I will lace up my running shoes. No kidding. Exercise. Exercise like big body movements are what really perk up the old brain.
00:07:30 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
837 Retirement and a Work of Love
I recently made contact with an old friend of mine. He retired and then did exactly what he wanted to do. Then lo and behold. Society did value it. And he does get paid. This is his story. I never ha…
00:07:23 |
Sun 09 Jul 2023
836 Taking One's Own Life
A friend asked if we knew; What group of people in the US commit the most suicides? The correct answer: white males over eighty. "Why do people think that is a negative thing"? Responded another frie…
00:07:43 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
835 Letter from Listener
A few years ago I received an email from Sherri Robinson who lives in Spokane Valley, Washington. She evidently felt interested enough in this topic of retirement to share some of her thoughts. It is…
00:06:33 |
Sun 02 Jul 2023
834 Frustration
Frustration comes in various ways and at odd times. The question is always what to do when it does work its way into our lives. Of course, the responses vary – sort of like the reason for the frustra…
00:07:29 |
Sun 02 Jul 2023
833 Slow Down & Pick Up The Pace
Creating and maintaining a retirement of your own choosing isn’t easy. The world is so very busy, outside stimuli is so great. It’s easy to get overwhelmed in many ways. Eternal vigilance is required…
00:06:47 |
Sun 28 May 2023
832 Staying Fit - For What?
Staying fit is an all encompassing goal. It isn't enough to be fit for one thing only; we want to be fit for life. That is much different than being able to stack baled hay all day, run a marathon, o…
00:06:37 |
Sun 21 May 2023
831 Retirement & Food
For whatever reasons eating out has come to play a major role in our lives. Retirement and eating out certainly seem to go together. Thus retirement and gaining weight seem to go together. That’s a p…
00:07:42 |
Sun 14 May 2023
830 Being Prepared for Death
Most of us have time to consider dying, especially retired people. We have managed to reach the retirement phase of life. We know that death awaits. Why is it then that we hesitate or refuse to plan …
00:07:41 |
Sun 07 May 2023
829 Life Maintenance Program
This podcast comes to me from a listener in Australia. The listener has definitely given some serious thought to retirement. Enjoy.
00:05:11 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
828 Does Retirement Call for a Dermatologist?
Last week my wife and I went to a dermatologist for a skin scan. A friend of ours who has had skin cancers removed for over thirty years insisted that we do this. He claimed that it went with retirem…
00:08:12 |
Sun 23 Apr 2023
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