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
807 My Funeral
Where do you start when planning your own funeral? Why should you start? Funerals are for the living and perhaps the entire process should be left to them. But it does seem like some of the deceased …
00:07:09 |
Sun 20 Nov 2022
806 Retirement & Priorities
The importance of priorities hasn't changed much from when we were young children chasing after kitchen cupboards and electrical outlets. We just change direction a bit. It is the direction that must…
00:07:29 |
Sun 13 Nov 2022
805 Alarm Clocks and News
So here is my rant about alarms, alarm clocks, and the news. I don’t mean to pontificate – I just wanted to rant and think about these things.
00:07:35 |
Sun 06 Nov 2022
804 Weather & News
As a retired person I might fill much of my time with weather and news. But, I can’t imagine anything less enjoyable. I’ve always wanted to enjoy life as much as possible.
00:07:40 |
Sun 30 Oct 2022
803 Family & Relocating
As we grow older all family ties seem to be ever more valuable. The desire for family ties grows stronger each day. There is something about blood. We want a chance to sit down with our own son and d…
00:06:26 |
Sun 23 Oct 2022
802 Home Exchange
We heard about this place on the Internet where one could participate in a home exchange network. You agree to trade the use of your residence for that of someone else’s. The trade is cash free. No …
00:09:05 |
Sun 16 Oct 2022
801 Health, Tai Chi, and the Lost Wallet
Several years have passed and regrets of losing my wallet are gone. But the memory of an elderly woman in black moving every so slowly along the water's edge remains as if etched in stone.
00:06:56 |
Sun 09 Oct 2022
800 The Past
I pleaded the case for history. I argued that only by studying the successes and failures of the past can we hope to rise above the past and avoid the pitfalls that have entrapped our ancestors. I us…
00:07:48 |
Sun 02 Oct 2022
799 The Con
Remember that movie in the 60s: The Flim Flam Man.What I recall is his basic philosophy that you can’t cheat an honest man. He always thought that the way you take advantage of someone is if they thi…
00:08:06 |
Sun 25 Sep 2022
798 Aging Advantages
There seem to be so many advantages of aging that I don’t know where to start. But one that jumped out to me as most important was the ability to be a better judge of character.
00:07:25 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
797 Time Reminders
"It is pancreatic cancer" a doctor recently told a fellow watercolorist who is an email friend of my wife. "One year" followed the announcement of pancreatic cancer: one year. How would it feel to ge…
00:06:27 |
Sun 11 Sep 2022
796 Road Trip Reflections
According to the cult of happiness the last phase to be practiced is reflection. We look back and consider what we have done or what has happened and hopefully enjoy the memories. We just completed a…
00:07:20 |
Sun 04 Sep 2022
795 On the Road
We decided to get an early start so that we might take advantage of the daylight hours. We do not like nor plan to be driving after dark. We want to see where we are going. We aimed for 8 am and were…
00:08:41 |
Sun 28 Aug 2022
794 Road Trip Ideas
I am not trying to talk you into one way of road tripping or another. I just want to stimulate thinking about various ways to go.
00:07:47 |
Sun 21 Aug 2022
793 Road Trip
When we drive out we always feel like we have seen Wallace, Idaho; Tonopah, Nevada; Arcadia, California; or wherever we might be. After all, that is why we are traveling.
00:08:14 |
Sun 14 Aug 2022
792 Looking Forward
We always need to have something out in front of us to pursue. I don't want to argue with that but I do want to pause for a few minutes and think about it. That is what this podcast is all about: pau…
00:07:03 |
Sun 07 Aug 2022
791 Retirement Without Guilt
What would we do if we retired? Everyone told us we were too young to retire. We had to work – it was a given. But after doing the math we found we did not need to work at a job. Feeling guilty about…
00:07:39 |
Sun 31 Jul 2022
790 Second Opinion
Health decisions seem to mount as we move towards and into retirement. What to do? Where do we turn for advice? Most of the time, we can readily agree with our doctor. Other times, it just doesn’t fe…
00:08:28 |
Sun 24 Jul 2022
789 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 |
Sun 17 Jul 2022
788 Retiring at the Same Time
I remember deciding to retire and told my wife that I would always drop her a card from exotic destinations all over the world. She didn’t see the humor. She knew that there might be a chance that I …
00:06:48 |
Sun 10 Jul 2022
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