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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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948 The Sky Is Falling

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/08/24

We retired people have one big advantage over others. We have been around the block. We have “seen it all before”. We do have some years behind us. We've seen many changes. We have a history. This movement from one crisis to another; one doomsayer's story after another has a numbing effect: the boy crying wolf effect.

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947 A Time to Dream

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/08/17

Retirement offers us a chance to reignite the imagination concerning what we can do with our life. We are no longer young and we cannot aspire to some things that require a youthful body. But other than that we are free to explore to our hearts delight

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946 Movies

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/08/10

Retirement affords us a special time in life when we can pick and choose how we spend our time. One could do worse than making movies a big part of retirement. Music, dance, visual art and drama all come together. I'm constantly amazed.

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945 Give Life a Poke

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/08/03

One time after a snowstorm I went with him to brush the snow off the wings of one of his planes. Under the snow the wings were covered in fur. He was trying to see if fur would change the performance of the plane. He made a profession of poking life.

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944 Home Projects

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/07/27

Brenda and I had careers that were mental not physical. We worked mostly with our minds. We were teachers. When we retired one of our delights was to build things with our hands. We wanted to be able to see the results of what we did. Household projects have filled this role to a T.

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943 Money Thoughts

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/07/20

I know: money is important. But is it the only thing that is important? I recently read a study of happiness as it relates to money. Retired folks might want to give this some thought.

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942 One Thousand Hours

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/07/13

I don't want to have any regrets. It takes a certain amount of forward thinking to conclude this. It also takes a certain amount of courage to realize it. Maybe the young man in the coffee shop did the math concerning one thousand months.

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942 Kindness, Gentleness, Compasion

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/07/06

We have to learn to be kind, gentle, and compassionate. We are not born possessing these qualities. This thought has been like a brain worm of late. I can't get theme out of my mind. These three qualities would look good on a grave stone.

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940 Small is Beautiful

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/06/29

We don't have to have the biggest house, farm, car or anything else. They may not be the most desirable. As a matter of fact; in many instances small is much better - if not beautiful.

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939 Talking Across Generations

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/06/22

We retired folks have a perfect opportunity to talk to younger people. We have had a lifetime of experiences and education. We have been down many roads; made good choices and bad. We just need to learn how to tell a good story - with a point.

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938 The Coffee Shop

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/06/15

No matter what is scheduled, we go to coffee. It is a social hour for us. When we retired and relocated we took into consideration the distance to restaurants, grocery stores, drug store, book shops and of course, coffee shops. We wanted to be able to walk to all of them. We can, and we do.

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937 The Ten Thousand Hour Rule

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/06/08

Malcom Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker magazine, recently wrote a book where he suggested that if you do anything for 10 thousand hours you can be successful at it. I'm living proof that there are exceptions.

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936 Tai Chi

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/06/01

In a recent email to Retirement Talk, John from McLean, Virginia wondered if I could talk a bit about Tai Chi. He exercises regularly, is close to retirement age and feel a bit tense at his work. He wanted to know if I thought Tai Chi might be worked into a routine that might help him.

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935 What Am I Doing Here

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/05/25

Maybe the existentialists had it wrong. The real life of the absurd would be if we were to live forever. The idea of accepting our own death is a comforting step to take. It relieves us of youthful misconceptions and philosophical rationalizations that are not as substantial as they earlier seemed.

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934 Moving to be Close to Children

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/05/18

Modern life demands mobility for education and employment. The family is uprooted. The extended family is a casualty. It all seems pretty academic until it happens to you. Suddenly, one day, it all becomes very personal. What to do?

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933 Watermelon Burgers

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/05/11

This is one of the greatest things about retirement. When we are working at going to school or going to work our lives are pretty well filled up. We don't have time or energy to really consider some of the basics of our lives.

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932 Human Touch

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/05/04

Thoughts about increasing demands on our social security system brought a former vision of mine to the surface. Human Touch was the title of my Master’s thesis work. I wrote up a proposal to the State of Alaska for the creation of a program that would benefit seniors, students and society.

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00:07:55

931 The Dark Ages

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/04/27

When I was a kid my thoughts roamed on to include ideas that when these old people die off we will be left with only people who have been educated to rely on the scientific method and all that it offers. Now I am one of those older people and I read, hear and see things in the press that seem completely out of sync with science and the belief in reason.

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930 Risk It

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/04/20

Retirement itself involves a degree of risk. We don't know if we will be happy or not. We don't know if we will have enough income to live comfortably. We don't know if we will have enough income to last until our death since we never know how much time we have yet to live.

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929 Murder Trial

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees ·

2025/04/13

Retirement allows us time to expand our horizons. New experiences may be closer than we think. You might want to check out your local courthouse and find out what trials are scheduled to start soon. Here is the story of our experience.

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