Category Archives: changes after retirement

What day is today?

Posted on January 2, 2019 by stillalife

Happy New Year (on whatever date you celebrate). Here’s hoping your celebration was — or will be — filled with joy, peace and gratitude for waking up to another year. When I began this post, the subject was the calendar … Continue reading →

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How to stop watching TV

Posted on October 2, 2018 by stillalife

In my last post, I mentioned wanting to eliminate TV watching as a way to pare down habits that interfere with accomplishing… not sure what, but accomplishing something.  At least it would offer a way to keep me out of … Continue reading →

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Who is the real you? Ask someone else

Posted on September 14, 2018 by stillalife

Recently, a newcomer appeared at my monthly lunch with former work friends: a daughter-in-law who was visiting from another state. In other words, a younger person. While aging is not a focus of our conversations, when we meet the topic … Continue reading →

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Happiness around the world

Posted on August 29, 2018 by stillalife

Lately, when I’m not in doctor’s offices or the emergency room, I’ve had a bit of time on my hands, some of which I’ve put to reading. (All these medical adventures relate to small fractures on my ankle and a … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with sloth?

Posted on August 1, 2018 by stillalife

When I was a kid, my favorite activity — which resembled inactivity — was lying on the couch and reading. My parents weren’t as thrilled as I was about a physical output that consisted of moving my eyes across a … Continue reading →

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Letting go of social media

Posted on March 27, 2018 by stillalife

Some people hang on to their jobs forever.  Some aren’t sure. They retire, return to work, retire, return. And others leave cold turkey. On my last day of work I believed I’d fit in the second category. A day later, … Continue reading →

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When to say “yes” and when to say “no”

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stillalife

The subheading for an article in this week’s New Yorker is, “What if self-improvement is making you worse?” This is related to a dilemma I’m experiencing now. Writer Alexandra Schwartz says that approaches to self-help change with the times and … Continue reading →

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The garden as therapy

Posted on July 25, 2017 by stillalife

The best thing about retirement is that you can slow down and enjoy the simpler things in life. Except that I keep forgetting to slow down. No. That’s not entirely true.  I devote my early mornings to reading the news, … Continue reading →

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Did you hear about the latest phobia?

Posted on May 23, 2017 by stillalife

You would think that a list of the top 100 phobias, which includes fear of bridges, feet, zombies, buttons, ducks and long words, would have covered the entire spectrum.  But this past weekend I read about a new one not on the list, … Continue reading →

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Aging like a monkey

Posted on February 19, 2017 by stillalife

I don’t usually write about — or even admit to — aging as it affects me, but after reading an article in the New York Times, “What Old Monkeys and Old Humans Have in Common,” I think it’s time we talked … Continue reading →

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