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A Simple Successful Retirement Test Everyone who is on the long, slow glide path toward “the Golden Years” needs to plan ahead in many ways. One that is rarely talked about is the emotional-sense-of-self that simple activities adds to a person’s life. My lifetime of observation is that a person who retires to a rocking chair dies mentally or physically very soon afterwards. The active ones with various interests stay around much longer. This test is intended to help people do some simple planning for their future. Aloha Friends and Prospective Writers In an article directory, essentially you put forth copyrighted free standing samples of your work. This could be a first chapter, a segment of a story, that you choose. It is an especially valuable way to reinstate material languishing in the closet, unseen, and lost forever. Unless you free it and edit it for the world to see. The important part is that each article must stand alone, and by itself. You can upload a series, if the parts are clearly labeled: Part 1, Part 2, etc. Your articl Airline Travel Today This is a new subject of discussion at our home. Perhaps it is at yours, as well? When I’ve discussed it with friends and acquaintances, I get varying ideas. Mostly the complaints are not about having to remove one’s shoes, put carry-on luggage through an x-ray machine, or to walk through a detector, or being wanded, or even patted down. My Grandchild’s Future, and What About The Elephant Herd in Our National Living Room? The official bulleted happy talking points dance down the page suggesting that in the US economy all is wonderful. The concert of the financial pundits is an all too familiar croak of pond frogs, and similar to whistling while walking through the cemetery at night. That is why a super majority of Americans feel like they are teetering on unstable ground before the rising winds of the gathering storm. Perhaps it is the trampling, trumpeting herd of elephants in our national living room . Oaks From Acorns Grow: Retirement Planning Today, for most people, Social Security is their bottom line. This is their default retirement plan. It is a faulty plan. These individuals will one day unpleasantly awaken to the fact that Social Security skates very close to the bottom of the economic scale. It may keep you from starving, but that is about all it will do for you. Early Retirement ? What I Did. What I Am Doing Now I’m told that on the average a person works until they are sixty-five, collects one Social Security check, and passes away. I don’t care much for those odds. I didn’t then, and I don’t now. I retired when I was 52 years of age. That was in 1992. The decision was not easy. It was one that my wife left up to me, if I could show her in black and white that it could work financially. That was a very real incentive to sharpen the pencil carefully. What Am I Gonna’ Do? This oft heard lament suddenly strikes different folks at different moments around the time of their retirement. It is as if for the first time they finally really confront the stark reality that they suddenly are going to have a lot of time on their hands. They don’t have to get up early. They have no place to go. In untold instances they have nothing worthwhile they want to do with their lives. Why Your Senior Vote is Important Every study and discussion of the effects your “enlarged” generation has had upon the American and world scene, zeros in on the very measurable effects of such a huge population. The effects of a sudden swelling of numbers of persons within an age group upon the various segments of society as the “pig” passes through the normal stages of life was a previously unknown phenomenon. Now your generation is doing it again as you move into your retirement years. A College Degree After I’m Fifty? Why not? The only limitation you face is that which you impose upon yourself. After crossing that bridge, you have many choices. Start with the basics. You can attend classes in person, or there are many college programs available on-line. And there are programs that mix the two versions. If your choice is to attend in person, follow that dream. I believe that you will enjoy yourself, and you do not have to take a full load. One or two classes will add plenty of spice to your life. Marriage vs. Civil Union? Do I believe in the sanctity of marriage? Yes. So much so that I do not believe in divorce under nearly every circumstance. I say this with some trepidation as many people very close to me have been forced into a situation where divorce seemed to be the only alternative to violence. Writer’s Cramp and the Future Writer’s cramp, block, or an onset of fear of writing happens to all of us, even me, the loquacious one. The big mouth, the ever churning idea factory is temporarily stilled. As a retired person I have a strong interest in all these areas of concern. As a writer, the last week or so of working my way through a case of writer’s cramp has been a time of reflection and recharging of batteries. I think I am now past my personal period of writer’s cramp. Relocating In Retirement, Writer’s Cramp, and Flashes of Inspiration There are three themes to this article: relocating in retirement , writer’s cramp, and flashes of inspiration. One can lead to the other. First, there was the flash. It came as a tiny moment of thought. It lasted only nano-seconds. There I was, just going through my normal and usual getting the day started activities: answer the phone, take my morning medications, shower, get dressed, answer the phone, and trying to decide about what to have for breakfast . . . when it hit. How to Use a Word Picture for Planning A Home for Retirement Many retirees find themselves moving to a new location. Many of these become involved in building themselves a new home in the new location. This can be both an exciting and an excruciating time. There are however methods of reducing the pain. One of those is both simple and complex at the same time, especially for non-writers. The simple description is the use of words, written language, to describe in as detailed a fashion as possible exactly what it is that you want in a new home. Hard Tack, Old Charlie, Jake, and Me Just Old Charlie, Jake, ten cut-plug chaw, eighty dry beans, a hard-headed herd of long-horn cattle, and me. Two gallons of raw, red-eye whiskey. One for snakebite, and one for cutting’ the dust. Water can be hard to find, and firewood’s mighty scarce on the short grass prairie. Spring’s wild flower carpets and Fall bottom colors are a cowboy’s delight. The sun’s fire hot come Summer, and in Winter it is not. Rain Washes The Tears Away I wait for days with big heavy drops, That run streaming down my face. My hot salty tears hide easily in the cold, … cold flood. I walk in the rain when I want to remember you. How to Plan and Guarantee a Perfect Vacation In one word: plan. In a phrase: know yourself and plan. By failing to plan, you plan to fail (to have a perfect vacation). The first step is an honest personal assessment. You have to seriously consider and firmly decide what it is that your mind and body needs from a vacation. Then you have to do it. I Do My Writing in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot I do my writing in the Wal-Mart parking lot. My wife likes to shop, I’d really - - -rather not. She’ll stay inside ‘til she’s ready to drop. I sit in the car, watchin’ the folks come ‘n go, the flow never stops. Trash, Sell, or Pack and Keeping Your Marriage Intact Getting ready to relocate one’s life location, again, in your sixties, is not a fresh stack of pancakes. It is more like chewing on hockey pucks. This is mid December. In mid October, to beat the Christmas rush, we sent 46 various sized boxes ahead to be stored for our arrival in our new location. Writing About The No Excuse-We Just Love to Party- Party Ironically I wrote my original notes for this piece at a Christmas party. I wasn’t feeing particularly Scrooge-ish, neither was I foaming with ebullient Christmas Cheer. In fact, I’d not yet even had a single beer to drink. We had arrived early, it was still daylight out, the sun was not yet past the yard arm, and I had little to do. I wrote some notes in the back of my rapidly expiring calendar. Writers - Never Throw Anything Away This is to protect yourself. Ideas are like fine wine, they need time to ripen and mature to full value. In this day and age of inexpensive RAM for computers, dirt cheap hard drives, and dirt cheap CD backup, no other writing activity is as important as the backup of files. Even your deletions in the editing process, don’t just toss your ideas off into the never-never land of the Ether; instead copy and paste them to a file called- - “Editing snippets from (- - - - - -)”. Internet Tip of the Week This was written by Bob Osgoodby and sent to me by a friend. It needs to be in the directory. For some people, the retirement income they receive, may not be enough to live the life style they wish, so they look about for other ways to generate some additional earnings. Many are attracted to the Internet,and some do very well while others do not. Those that do not may get quickly disenchanted, and write the Internet off as just a lot of hype, where you can't earn anything. Staying Alive in Retirement: Learn Something New: Ham Radio Staying alive means more than just waking up in the morning still breathing. To me staying alive means to be engaged with life, my community, my family, and within my own brain. Today’s topic: Studying for and passing the Technician’s ham radio license.

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