Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees

By Del Lowery

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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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848 Reunions & Attitude

09.24.2023

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 ...

Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees episodes:

09.24.2023 848 Reunions & Attitude 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 ...
09.17.2023 847 Retirements Many Roads 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 ...
09.10.2023 846 Beauty of Routine 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.
09.03.2023 845 Heroes 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.
08.27.2023 844 The Coffee Shop 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".
08.20.2023 843 Fall Road Trip 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 ...
08.13.2023 842 Taking One's Own Life (Part 2) 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 ...
08.06.2023 841 Retirement by Projects 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 ...
07.30.2023 840 Retirement & Neighbors 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’.
07.23.2023 839 "Here To Help" 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.
07.13.2023 838 Exercise for the Brain 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.
07.09.2023 837 Retirement and a Work of Love 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 ...
07.06.2023 836 Taking One's Own Life 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 ...
07.02.2023 835 Letter from Listener 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.
07.02.2023 834 Frustration Frustration comes in various ways and at odd times. The question is always what to do when it does work its way into our lives. Of course, the responses vary – sort of like the reason for the frustration.
06.18.2023 834 Frustration Frustration comes in various ways and at odd times. The question is always what to do when it does work its way into our lives. Of course, the responses vary – sort of like the reason for the frustration.
05.28.2023 833 Slow Down & Pick Up The Pace Creating and maintaining a retirement of your own choosing isn’t easy. The world is so very busy, outside stimuli is so great. It’s easy to get overwhelmed in many ways. Eternal vigilance is required to maintain one’s sense of self.
05.21.2023 832 Staying Fit - For What? Staying fit is an all encompassing goal. It isn't enough to be fit for one thing only; we want to be fit for life. That is much different than being able to stack baled hay all day, run a marathon, ...
05.14.2023 831 Retirement & Food For whatever reasons eating out has come to play a major role in our lives. Retirement and eating out certainly seem to go together. Thus retirement and gaining weight seem to go together. That’s a problem.
05.07.2023 830 Being Prepared for Death Most of us have time to consider dying, especially retired people. We have managed to reach the retirement phase of life. We know that death awaits. Why is it then that we hesitate or refuse to plan for this definite ...
04.30.2023 829 Life Maintenance Program This podcast comes to me from a listener in Australia. The listener has definitely given some serious thought to retirement. Enjoy.
04.23.2023 828 Does Retirement Call for a Dermatologist? Last week my wife and I went to a dermatologist for a skin scan. A friend of ours who has had skin cancers removed for over thirty years insisted that we do this. He claimed that it went with retirement.
04.16.2023 827 Technology - Keeping Up Since you are listening to this program - a podcast - I assume you make an attempt to keep up with technological changes. The thing is just when you think you have caught up, here comes another “thing”.
04.02.2023 825 Upkeep We have told our kids that as we grow older we want them to always speak freely and bring us up to speed when they visit. Throw out what needs to be thrown out, and go shopping for things that ...
03.19.2023 823 Relating to Grandchildren 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 ...
03.12.2023 822 Habits “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.
03.05.2023 821Getting Around 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 ...
02.26.2023 820 Retired and No Time To Shave 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," ...
02.19.2023 819 Gambling 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?
02.12.2023 818 Gun Control? 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 ...
02.05.2023 817 Dogs 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.
01.29.2023 816 Is the World Better Off 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.
01.11.2023 815 Taking a Break 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.
01.08.2023 814 Being Alone 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.
01.01.2023 813 Death, Escape, Retirement 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.
12.25.2022 812 Retirement & Freedom 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.
12.18.2022 811 Technology & Retirement 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.
12.11.2022 810 Love Trips 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 ...
12.04.2022 809 No Worries 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 ...
11.27.2022 808 Getting Involved: Politics “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 ...
11.20.2022 807 My Funeral 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 ...
11.13.2022 806 Retirement & Priorities 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 ...
11.06.2022 805 Alarm Clocks and News 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.
10.30.2022 804 Weather & News As a retired person I might fill much of my time with weather and news. But, I can’t imagine anything less enjoyable. I’ve always wanted to enjoy life as much as possible.
10.23.2022 803 Family & Relocating As we grow older all family ties seem to be ever more valuable. The desire for family ties grows stronger each day. There is something about blood. We want a chance to sit down with our own son and daughter, ...
10.16.2022 802 Home Exchange We heard about this place on the Internet where one could participate in a home exchange network. You agree to trade the use of your residence for that of someone else’s. The trade is cash free. No charge to members.
10.09.2022 801 Health, Tai Chi, and the Lost Wallet Several years have passed and regrets of losing my wallet are gone. But the memory of an elderly woman in black moving every so slowly along the water's edge remains as if etched in stone.
10.02.2022 800 The Past I pleaded the case for history. I argued that only by studying the successes and failures of the past can we hope to rise above the past and avoid the pitfalls that have entrapped our ancestors. I used the old ...
09.25.2022 799 The Con Remember that movie in the 60s: The Flim Flam Man.What I recall is his basic philosophy that you can’t cheat an honest man. He always thought that the way you take advantage of someone is if they think they are ...
09.18.2022 798 Aging Advantages There seem to be so many advantages of aging that I don’t know where to start. But one that jumped out to me as most important was the ability to be a better judge of character.

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