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October 31st, 2025, marks the eighth anniversary of me retiring from fulltime work. If you have read my previous retirement posts, you know that I have often written the word … Continue Reading Retirement – 8th Anniversary
October 31st, 2024, marks the seventh anniversary of me retiring from fulltime work. If you have read my previous retirement posts, you know that I have often written the word … Continue Reading Retirement – 7th Anniversary
Recently, my wife has brought up the “D” word—not the one you might be thinking of but another—Downsizing. Over our nearly 45 years of marriage, my wife and I have … Continue Reading How Much Room Do We Need?
It has been over a year since I last wrote about my dad’s sermons. I have mentioned in previous posts that my dad over his lifetime wrote over 750 sermons … Continue Reading Dad’s Last Sermon Preached
It’s hard to believe that it has been another year since I “retired.” Yes, October 31st, 2023, marks the sixth anniversary of that significant milestone for me. And I have … Continue Reading Retirement – 6th Anniversary
October 31, 2022 marks the fifth anniversary of my “retirement.” I put that in quotation marks because while it is the fifth anniversary since I retired from full-time work, I … Continue Reading Retirement – 5th Anniversary
Last weekend, 31 October 2021 marked the fourth anniversary of my “retirement.” I put that in quotes because while it is the fourth anniversary since I retired from full-time work, … Continue Reading Retirement – 4th Anniversary
It was several weeks ago I wrote about receiving this book, my dad’s Pastoral Record, when I was over in northwest Arkansas visiting my two sisters. In addition to documenting … Continue Reading How Many Sermons Did My Dad Write?
I have written several times about these boxes of my dad’s sermons that my oldest sister thankfully saved after his death in 2002, the first of which was when my … Continue Reading Roadmap to a Lifelong Career
This is, no doubt, a question most everyone asks themselves as they approach retirement when the ties of having to live close to a physical workplace are finally severed and … Continue Reading Where to Retire to?
October 31st marks the third anniversary of my retirement from fulltime work and since that time, I must say I have never once been bored. For some, the question of … Continue Reading No Time For Boredom
October 31stmarks the second anniversary of my retirement from fulltime work and since that time, I have begun to ask myself this question numerous times. I have friends who have … Continue Reading How Did I Ever Have Time to Work?
Last year, several of the items on my short term post-retirement “To Do” list involved cleaning out closets. After I retired in the fall of 2017, I made several lists … Continue Reading Overdue Closet Clean-Out
2018 marked my first full year of retirement. Retirement for many people is broken down into three phases: the go-go years, the slow-go years, and the no-go years corresponding to … Continue Reading Travel 2018 – The Go-Go Year!
October 31st 2018 marks the one-year anniversary of my retirement from full-time employment in the pharmaceutical industry. And I have to say I’ve been loving it! For the remainder of 2017, … Continue Reading I’m Loving It!
One of the items I added to my “Long Term To Do” list after I retired last year was to clean out the garage, a major undertaking given we have … Continue Reading Workbench Rescue
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