Thursday, August 25, 2005
Cohousing In Retirement
It might sound like something out of the 1960’s but communes are an option for retirees. It seems the term is now “cohousing” but the sentiment is the same. Here’s an excerpt from Communes for Grownups from the AARP’s website.
In cohousing, the residents themselves plan their communities and choose the appearance. They own their own units and divide duties for maintenance, gardening and other chores. And they rotate responsibilities for fixing meals that are shared two or three times a week in a community building.
If you want to look into some cohousing options, check out The Cohousing Association of the United States for some information. (Thanks to Susan, a TalkingRetirement reader, for a suggestion on this.)
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Rediscovering A Lost Passion
What passion did you not follow in your life? Writing? Sculpting? Here’s a great story of some people who, after many years off, have followed their passions again. Read the article.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Test Drive a New Career
If you’ve been reading Talking Retirement for a while, you know that most people don’t actually stop working when they “retire.” They just move on to another line of work. Hopefully, it’s one they have a passion for. Vocation Vacations has an interesting idea for your next vacation. They claim your next vacation can be “a risk-free opportunity to test out the job of your dreams under the guidance of an expert who shares your passion.” Do you picture yourself as an Innkeeper, a Tour Operator, or a Brew Master? Check out their site and you might find out if that’s what your next career should be by actually living it for a few days.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Retirement Plan Nightmares: The Movie
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a new movie that opened last weekend, is getting great
reviews. As you probably already know, Enron’s top executives scammed their investors, the public, and their own employees out of a billion dollars. It left many employees with nearly nothing left in their retirement plans.
Watch the trailer at the official movie site.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
The Overweight Live Longer?
Contrary to nearly everything we’ve been taught, The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight people actually live longer than normal-weight people. In today New York Times, David Brooks has an amusing editorial on the subject. My favorite bit is, “Life isn’t fair, logic is of limited value and, as Woody Allen observed years ago, everything your parents once thought was good for you turns out to be bad for you: sun, milk, red meat and college.” Funny.
Grab a piece of pie then, read the article.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
What if You Get Bored? Try Unretiring.
This is a good follow-up to the Paul Newman piece from a couple days ago. This Miami Herald article talks about people who did retire to “live the good life” and then ended up realizing that what they thought they wanted from retirement wasn’t what they wanted after all. It’s a good story.
Click here to read article. (free registration required)
Thursday, March 17, 2005
The Reinvention of Retirement
Market Place, the Public Radio Internation program, is one of my favorite radio programs. This week there has been a great series on the reinvention of retirement. Topics include the changing ways to save for it and the new ways people live it. Highly recommended.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005
Reading a Good Book.
I’ll file this under “Things I’ll do when I retire.”
This morning on Morning Edition on NPR, Nancy Pearl, librarian and author, talked about her favorite spy books. I’ve added most of them to my already long reading list. The one I’m most excited about is John le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and A Perfect Spy.
Read the article here.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Retirement Travel Ideas.
Wondering where to go when you retire? The Rozylowicz family have some ideas. They built a website with an index of places they have visited in retirement, and encourage people to have a look. What a good idea.
Visit the site.
