Isn’t there a title of a workshop something like Psychology 101 or whatever where the number is meant to indicate that the learning experience is a basic one, even easy? Something like that anyway. And here we are in our vineyard blogs, after 13 years, at vineyard blog 101. But let me tell you there…
Heading for the Hills More Easily in Retirement by Bruce Kirschner
I know when it’s time to “get outta Dodge.” This uniquely American phrase refers to a need to leave a place in an urgent manner. It is a reference to the real Dodge City, Kansas, which in the late 19th century was a bustling and infamous cattle town on the edge of the frontier. Dodge City…
Unsettled Part 3. Sport!
The last two blogs on this retirement site have featured ‘unsettledness’, strange word I guess but then I rather like it. It’s an accurate descriptor of how I’m currently feeling without resorting to what I would call a label. I never liked labels when I was working as a psychologist even though or perhaps because…
Retirement Unsettled: Part Two
And it’s happened again. Yes, unsettled again. Is this going to be a pattern for the rest of my life? I hope not. The previous blog was about being unsettled by being in the company of ex school chums in my home town. This last weekend the ‘unsettleness’ was to do with neither of these…
Retirement, unsettled in my home town
Something happened this weekend which was unsettling. And I don’t mean having a nasty dizzy turn for which there was no explanation. This other event had no explanation, in the sense that I didn’t know why it was unsettling, but I gradually realised that it was. So what was ‘it’ you ask? Well it was…
Vineyard 100: Are we winning?
Some kind of achievement to get to 100 vineyard blogs. They’ve been slow coming these last two years for reasons ranging from the weather – snow and storm damage, to retirement (our man who does a lot of the work) and my health – all have undermined our efforts to keep the vineyard afloat. Certainly…
Self esteem: it never goes away
Over the years I’ve been writing this retirement blog the topic of self-esteem, sometimes called well-being, has figured consistently. Just one example – ‘Self Esteem 6’ from July 2022. As far as I can see from my records this was the last blog on the topic but, as you can tell from the ‘6’ not…
Ireland once again?
I couldn’t say that we only discovered Ireland when we retired, we’d visited the land of our forefather’s several times before that, but it was with retirement that we started to spend time there (mostly in the same cottage in Kerry) every year. We loved it, even without the family connections. Many of these blogs…
Ten years on and deep into retirement
I suppose it is inevitable that as one gets to ‘a certain age’ the inclination is to look backwards rather than forwards. I can’t quite remember what inspired me to choose ten years as the point in the past to mull over but that’s Ok, it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want…
Leave a legacy?
In 1994 I bought a book. Today I looked for it on my bookshelves and couldn’t find it. I did find the follow-up to the one I was looking for the one in the picture above. Both books were written by Stephen R. Covey something of a hero of mine way back then. And bloody…