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
827 Technology - Keeping Up
Since you are listening to this program - a podcast - I assume you make an attempt to keep up with technological changes. The thing is just when you think you have caught up, here comes another “thi…
00:09:01 |
Sun 16 Apr 2023
826 Friends
"He who has many friends, has no friends". I think Aristotle said that. Life experience has supported the truth of it. It seems like developing friendship requires a certain amount of time; but not a…
00:07:26 |
Sun 09 Apr 2023
825 Upkeep
We have told our kids that as we grow older we want them to always speak freely and bring us up to speed when they visit. Throw out what needs to be thrown out, and go shopping for things that could …
00:07:42 |
Sun 02 Apr 2023
824 Alaska
Travel is one thing that people in retirement and those nearing retirement seem to always have on their agenda. I remember my mother at age 65 bouncing up and down on some tundra just above Anchorag…
00:09:17 |
Sun 26 Mar 2023
823 Relating to Grandchildren
Communicating across generations is something of a challenge that we retired people have to learn. There are no classes, college courses, or how to books on this one. We must all invent our own metho…
00:07:44 |
Sun 19 Mar 2023
822 Habits
“We don’t have good habits because we are good,” Aristotle said. “We are good because we have good habits.” That line sticks in my mind from somewhere in the past.
00:08:14 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
821Getting Around
When it comes to retirement and getting around, the best answer seems to be choosing where you live carefully. If you can walk and find everything you might need or want the problem of getting around…
00:08:21 |
Sun 05 Mar 2023
820 Retired and No Time To Shave
How long does it take to shave? Five minutes – maybe ten. Not longer. This morning while walking to a health club my wife noted that I had not shaved for a few days. “I haven’t had time to shave," I …
00:08:23 |
Sun 26 Feb 2023
819 Gambling
Here I am, retired, no child in our society. Casinos and gambling are very much part of our culture; yet I find them beyond understanding. For many of the retired gambling is part of their life. Why?
00:09:20 |
Sun 19 Feb 2023
818 Gun Control?
All the murders, yet no one advocates for gun control in this country, at least not gun control as I came to understand it on that African plain many years ago. Here is my story of what constitutes r…
00:12:31 |
Sun 12 Feb 2023
817 Dogs
There is something about unconditional love. It isn't easy to find. But that is what a dog gives to a person. It can be a great boon to retirement.
00:07:46 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
816 Is the World Better Off
Eternal quote: The older generation really messed up this world. When we get older, when we get some younger people elected to office, we will straighten things out. We will leave this a much better …
00:08:48 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
815 Taking a Break
I especially want to encourage anyone fairly new to this podcast to go back through the archives to the very earliest episodes to find thoughts on considering retirement that were in my mind shortly …
00:01:09 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
814 Being Alone
According to a recently published book on retirement loneliness is a major problem. When our work life ends many of us have a hard time adjusting to a role where we are not required to socialize with…
00:08:18 |
Sun 08 Jan 2023
813 Death, Escape, Retirement
We are always on the road to dying. It can come quickly and quite unexpectedly. We may have escaped death once, twice, or perhaps several times. If we are lucky Retirement becomes a possibility.
00:09:39 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
812 Retirement & Freedom
We retired people really want the same thing we have always wanted. We want to affirm ourselves in our daily lives. We want to have a way of self-actualization. We want to matter. We want to be able …
00:08:22 |
Sun 25 Dec 2022
811 Technology & Retirement
This age of technology - it isn’t easy for some of us –. It requires that we learn something new constantly. That is, if we wish to keep up with the world around us.
00:08:39 |
Sun 18 Dec 2022
810 Love Trips
Love trips. Yes, that’s right. Love trips. It refers to those trips like we retired folks take to see either our children, grandchildren, or our parents – people we love. If those trips involve airpl…
00:08:05 |
Sun 11 Dec 2022
809 No Worries
Maybe we just need to establish a few hours each day for no worries; sort of a no worry zone. Or perhaps it would be better yet to just establish an hour a day to worry and then have the rest of the …
00:08:49 |
Sun 04 Dec 2022
808 Getting Involved: Politics
“A sandwich board? You spent the weekend as a sandwich board?” My friend proclaimed his support for “Pro Choice” as a sandwich board. Roy earned a BA from Harvard and a PHD from the University of Ch…
00:06:47 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
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