by Leslie | Mar 18, 2021 | Lifestyle, Spending Time, Stories
Some of us see retirement as an opportunity to change our lives and fulfill big dreams. In the fall of 2017, Ronna Benjamin and her husband Mike did just that. They sold their home of 30 years and most of their possessions, moved onto their 49-foot sailboat and headed...
by Roxanne | Feb 4, 2021 | Getting Ready, Lifestyle, Relationships, Spending Time, Stories
Dorri Raposa had a big job. A senior vice president at HDR, a firm with 10,000 employees who provide engineering, architectural, environmental and construction services around the world, she was the first woman and non-engineer to attain that position in the company’s...
by Leslie | Nov 12, 2020 | Stories
“Retirement means the lack of engagement; it is total disengagement,” the 40-something woman declared on the phone. As if that wasn’t off-putting enough, she continued, “People in your world should realize that once you retire, you’re no longer vital.” What? I would...
by Roxanne | Sep 17, 2020 | Stories
“It was a hard slap to the psyche.” That’s the way Margo Withy describes how it felt to be forced into retirement in 2017 at age 69. A single public relations professional from White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Margo had been her own boss for decades and she intended to...
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...
by Leslie | May 28, 2020 | Getting Ready, Stories
When Roxanne and I teamed up to write a book about retirement for women, we wanted the content to be about the social and emotional aspects of this transition, based on the experiences of women who had already retired. So we created a questionnaire and invited women...
