Way back in 2014 one of the first blogs I wrote was about worry, anxiety and stress in retirement. I read the blog again yesterday (I’ll return to this old blog at the end of this one) prompted by a recent article on AOL about dealing with anxiety. I read the AOL article, as I often do, with a view…
Category: Well being
Retired person writes about his happy places
I could have sworn I’ve written a blog about ‘happy places’ but I’ll be buggered if I can find it. So I’m going to assume I haven’t and write one now. If I have written it then you’re just going to have to accept that I am going gaga and take pleasure in my amusing…
Why do I find retirement unsettling – sometimes?
I tried to work this out a bit on our morning walk. The morning after the day of the visit from three old friends. Why should such a visit be unsettling, indeed was it unsettling? Is this the right word? I suppose, in the sense, that it was not an ordinary day for us, it’s…
Retirement and, whisper it, sex
Considering I’ve written about 450 blogs on various aspects of retirement, it is perhaps remarkable that this will be the first one about, can I say it? Sex. There I’ve said it. Nobody can accuse me of pandering to the lowest common denominator to increase my readership although if it does I may have to…
Retirement resilience
Once again as I sit down to write my retirement blog I do so under the shadow of yet another terrorist atrocity. I consider for a short while how I should respond. Should I write an angry, condemnatory blog, write a peace and love blog, not write a blog at all or simply carry on…
Another retirement project or is it the same one?
Don’t know what happened to this blog, should have gone out on Tuesday as usual. First time I’ve missed a deadline. I like holidays (although we’re home now) because they give a person time to reflect on life. In my case my retirement life. I think if I was ever going to make a sweeping…
Retirement, Ireland and its strange magic
We have approached this holiday with some trepidation. Since the last time we were here, a year ago, the UK and its relationship with Ireland has undergone a significant change. Just what that would feel like, on the ground, so to speak, we weren’t at all sure. In parts of Ireland the British have always…
Is unpleasantness and discomfort good for the retired person?
I was looking through the Sunday papers – again – hoping to come across an idea which I could use to write my Tuesday retirement blog. It’s not that I didn’t have any ideas – driving up to the vineyard / barn to enable a couple of friends to stay overnight in the barn and…
Does this have any relevance for the retired person?
Though I say it myself, I’ve always been good at having ideas, but following them through to completion, absolute rubbish, but yes, having them, great. I say this by way of preamble to a brilliant (well, we’ll see) idea about a topic for this blog. Like so many of my ideas I’ve no idea where…
The Complexities of Retirement
Complexity : the state of having many parts and being difficult to understand or find an answer to. The Cambridge English Dictionary You think things can’t get any more complicated. And then they do. Our morning walks, at an hour long, simply aren’t long enough to discuss all of our retirement challenges. Some of the…