Posted in Retirement on April 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Daydreaming about retirement makes me wonder just what I would do if all my days were free from the 9 to 5 job. My biggest fear is I would become a couch potato and die soon after retiring because I’d let myself go. What I need is a good routine, a way to pace myself [...]
Posted in Blogging, Retirement on April 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The title above comes from the Dylan Thomas poem and I encourage you to take a moment and follow the link and listen to it. It’s about death and dying, not a particularly popular topic for the young, but the ghost that haunts anyone past fifty. I am only fifty-six but thoughts of Social Security, [...]
Posted in Retirement, tagged Retirement on April 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Remember the 1970s? You personally might have been discoing, but the economy had a heart attack. Two oil shortages. Inflation. Stagflation. Recession. Investments took a dive way before the fifteenth round. Luckily the rise in oil prices were artificial due to political influence, and they settled down to allow us to have two decades of [...]
