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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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824 Alaska

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/03/26

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 Anchorage smiling and exclaiming, "Imagine, I am in Alaska!"

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823 Relating to Grandchildren

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/03/19

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 method. Or, we can just let it happen if it does.

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8:14

822 Habits

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/03/12

“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.

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821Getting Around

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/03/05

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 can disappear – along with your car.

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820 Retired and No Time To Shave

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/02/26

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 responded.

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819 Gambling

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/02/19

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?

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818 Gun Control?

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/02/12

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 real gun control.

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817 Dogs

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/02/05

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.

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8:48

816 Is the World Better Off

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/01/29

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 world than we found.

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815 Taking a Break

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/01/11

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 after I retired. Enjoy.

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814 Being Alone

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/01/08

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 others. We retreat.

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813 Death, Escape, Retirement

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2023/01/01

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.

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8:22

812 Retirement & Freedom

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/12/25

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 to choose.

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811 Technology & Retirement

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/12/18

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.

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810 Love Trips

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/12/11

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 airplanes it looks like they may soon end. Or at least they should.

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809 No Worries

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/12/04

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 day to enjoy life.

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808 Getting Involved: Politics

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/11/27

“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 Chicago. Now he’s a sandwich board.

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807 My Funeral

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/11/20

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 wishes might be included.

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806 Retirement & Priorities

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/11/13

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 be kept in mind. We need to know what we really value.

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805 Alarm Clocks and News

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2022/11/06

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.

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