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Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees

Retirement Talk is a weekly podcast intended for seniors, boomers and retirees. We will examine all aspects of retirement: actions, ideas, memories, and plans. We will consider travel, life goals, family, community, exercise, relocating, housing, continuing education, friends, health, and end of life issues.

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854 Venturing Into Politics

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/11/04

This podcast has tried to avoid the topic of politics. It has not been easy. Politics is a topic that retired people have plenty of time to discuss. From this time on politics will be fair game. It is a big part of retirement.

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853 Holidays

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/10/29

Modern societal demands have moved children far away from parents, cousins away from cousins, and sometimes, brothers and sisters away from each other. The nuclear family is not an exaggeration in any way. Family gatherings on holidays have been one of the casualties. What to do?

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852 How Much Is Enough?

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/10/22

One question that people getting close to retirement always ask is, "How much money do I need? How much is enough?" There seems to be no hard and fast rule. What is a person to do?

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851 Retired, Camping, Biking

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/10/15

Camping and biking. The memories and stories they produce are priceless. And they don't have to end with retirement.

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850 Technology - Keeping Up

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/10/08

"I just can't keep up" Ever heard someone say that. My parents used to say it when I was a kid seventy to eighty years ago. If they only knew how fast the pace of change was to accelerate they would have completely given up.

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849 Downsizing

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/10/02

Downsizing seems to be a move that accompanies retirement or just getting older. Changes accumulate and we find ourselves for any combination of reasons looking to find a change in residence.

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848 Reunions & Attitude

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/09/24

Time always seemed short and conversations rushed. There was no time to develop any sort of meaningful exchange. I would like to have had an hour or two with several of them in a one on one conversation. That would have made it worthwhile.

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8:37

847 Retirements Many Roads

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/09/17

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't choose.

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8:18

846 Beauty of Routine

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/09/10

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 them habitual.

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845 Heroes

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/09/03

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.

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844 The Coffee Shop

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/08/27

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".

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843 Fall Road Trip

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/08/20

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 the trip I won't want to come home.

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7:13

842 Taking One's Own Life (Part 2)

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/08/13

842 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 great deal of merit and deserved to be shared with my listeners.

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841 Retirement by Projects

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/08/06

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 that creates a sense of happiness.

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840 Retirement & Neighbors

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/30

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’.

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839 "Here To Help"

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/23

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.

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838 Exercise for the Brain

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/13

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.

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837 Retirement and a Work of Love

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/09

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 had such luck.

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836 Taking One's Own Life

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/06

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 friend a white male, over eighty. "It only makes sense that many people when they get that old, and perhaps have severe health problems take their own life".

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835 Letter from Listener

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/07/02

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 definitely worth sharing.

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