Forging a Retirement Identity (With a Little Help from My Friends)
It was a perfect early spring evening for cocktails at a Manhattan rooftop lounge, and I couldn’t wait. Not only to get back to New York after more than two years away
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Retire? Whatever Do You Mean!
Can this be The Great Indignation? It seems everybody’s not doing it — retirement, that is. Last weekend, an article profiling the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, now with a new band among
Becoming Retired
My successor was ready; I’d cleared my office, surrendered my laptop, and made my farewells. Toting a shopping bag filled with my office shoe collection and an assortment of farewell flowers, I
Deciding to Retire
The small stack of books decorating the corner of my desk tells my story: The Psychology of Retirement, What color is your retirement?, Blue Horses poems, Life is in the Transitions, and my
Welcome to Retirement Commentaries
I always assumed there’d be more to my retirement than calculating how much money I’d need, estimating expenses, and figuring out the best age to start. Important, for sure, but I