by Leslie | Oct 15, 2020 | Getting Ready, Relationships
“Once you’ve been retired a couple of years, you realize you’ve lost your ‘work family,’” says a retired buyer for a large medical institution in Rochester, Minnesota. “I think we all intend to keep in touch after retirement, but truth be told, most don’t. Life...
by Leslie | Sep 3, 2020 | Getting Ready, Relationships
Deciding when to retire is a big decision; in fact, it may be one of the most important ones we make during our lifetime. With our increased longevity over previous generations, many of us will live another 20, 30 or even 40 years after we leave our full-time careers....
by Leslie | Aug 6, 2020 | Getting Ready, Spending Time
Ahhh. You’re finally retired. The first few months after you left the working world were a delicious, less-stressful, less-structured series of days. It felt like a well-deserved vacation. You turned off your alarm clock, caught up on your sleep, lingered over coffee...
by Leslie | Jul 23, 2020 | Getting Ready, Interviews with Experts
Marcia Mantell is passionate about Social Security. And she’s on a crusade to educate women about how critical Social Security is in planning for their retirement. She launched her retirement consulting firm in 2005 and is considered a retirement industry go-to-person...
by Leslie | Jun 25, 2020 | Identity, Stories
Laurie Riley spent the last 15 years of her working life as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher. It was her dream job. She loved the kids and the freedom she had to create her own curriculum in the small open classroom school in Marin County, California. “I was so...
