by Leslie | Jan 21, 2021 | Getting Ready, Spending Time
Thinking about retirement often means thinking about volunteering. With more available time, it’s a way to give back. It’s a chance to identify our interests, harness our skills and put them to good use for the benefit of others. All on our own schedule, without...
by Leslie | Dec 10, 2020 | Spending Time
The “shoulds” tried to get the best of me this past weekend – the ones that try to decree what I should be doing with my time now that I’m retired. My usual fall and early-winter Sunday routine is to get the day’s newspapers, go for a walk by myself or a hike with my...
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 Roxanne | Jul 9, 2020 | Getting Ready, Spending Time
One of the questions we asked women via our Retirement Voices questionnaire last year was what surprised them about retirement. What surprised us was how many women mentioned time—and how there wasn’t enough of it! So if you fear you’ll be bored or at loose ends with...
by Leslie | Apr 16, 2020 | Spending Time
I had an epiphany last week. It was the second week of our pandemic-related stay-at-home mandate and I just wasn’t being productive. My to-do lists were getting longer, not shorter. I had committed to Roxanne that I would edit some chapters of our book and I couldn’t...
