Travels with Levering

Here is the digest of my learnings about having a successful retirement. It boils down to the need to be intentional about having resou...

Here are some poems that I found lying about in my notes. Perhaps I thought them unworthy. You can decide. First Person Singular ...

As it turns out, it is fairly easy to put together a publication that is a collation of blog posts. So, due to the overwhelming popular dema...

In all my discussions with people about retirement, it’s clear that professional people had an easier time for a variety of reasons. By...

This post is really for people in the Capital District.  We started a Retirement Roundtable group that meets on first Wednesdays at 7:30 in ...

I have had the chance to hang out more than usual at the Colonie Golf Course that has on it's site Martel’s Grill and Bar. At this ti...

Again the leaving again the returning like blood leaving our hearts only to return like library books or ships at sea or lost loves o...

Dear Uncle Bill, My wife, who in in the same profession as myself, is much younger than I am. Really. If it weren't so flattering in...

To start our thinking, perhaps we should consider how much it takes to live on in America and be happy whether we are retired or not. A ...

Why did the old man fall in the well?  He couldn't see that well. What is the best thing about living to be over 100?  No peer pr...

I have had the joy of a 'practice' retirement as I have take my sabbatical this summer.  One of the things that changed dramatical...

Dear Uncle Bill, I've just retired and I was really looking forward to a time of leisure and travel.  Unfortunately, my parents are bot...

Honest to goodness, I had started a blog with this title a week before our president recently decided that Jews who voted for Democrats were...

I know that many many of those of you who read these very random posts do not reside in the Capitol District.  For those of you who do, I am...

You know that I am not terribly bossy and like to encourage people to find their own answers to problems, but here I am going to give a hu...

Well. Some days we need encouragement and positive thoughts. For those days, here is a set of aphorisms about retirement. I like just lo...

When Blue died on that table Something in me died too Some puppy jumper licker biter Died I knew I wouldn't outlive another Dog B...

Let's suppose that you are a fairly normal person and that you retire for the last quarter of your life and are not one of those peopl...

So much gone Friends, jumping jacks, the smell of dandelions Hard to keep track of it all Not that I want to Dwell in the sadlands...

In the native language of Wales, Alaska, there are about 70 terms for ice, such as: “utuqaq,” the ice that lasts from year to year; “sigul...

Dear Uncle Bill, In my former career, I had several co-workers I considered friends.  After retirement, it has become increasingly dif...

Scratching an intellectual itch may just make it worse. We are accustomed to chasing down every unknown factor in conversations with a qui...

Whether you like it or not, except for your own coming and going, you are not in charge of as much in retirement. Not as important in the...

Really? O yes. You should see the movie. Probably the best in the series. This was a movie made for me. It has a spork, comedy, sorrow, to...

In 1904, Sociologist Max Weber developed the understanding of the impact of John Calvin's theology on economics and individual effort. ...