A Review of My Time

One of the elements I love about retirement is the ability to set up my days to align with my retirement lifestyle vision, which is based on my values and hopefully my natural inclinations and strengths. These past months have been a blur and I felt the need to relook at where I’m spending my … Continue reading A Review of My Time

Should I Join the Multi-Hyphenate Identity Trend?

Even approaching 10 years in retirement, I still stumble over answering the question, “What do you do?’  For 30+ years, my total identity was singular and tied to my career, to what I did. I was a Products Researcher at P&G.  [For those not familiar with the Corporate lingo, that’s a product designer for Procter … Continue reading Should I Join the Multi-Hyphenate Identity Trend?

I lived it, I wrote about it, why can’t I remember it?

Twice in the past couple of weeks, I was talking to a recent retiree about the five needs full-time work, especially career focused work, provides that you will have to determine if you still need in retirement….and I could not list them!  As anyone who reads my blog regularly knows, I adore lists.  I live … Continue reading I lived it, I wrote about it, why can’t I remember it?

Who Am I – A Guest Post

Since I've retired, I have spent quite a bit of time in self-discovery. As a workaholic with limited hobbies who could no longer define herself by her job, who was I? Socrates said Know Thyself and recently a series of events inspired me to create a Who Am I guest post as part of Karen’s … Continue reading Who Am I – A Guest Post

Am I Different in Retirement?

Am I a “different me” in retirement? A while back, a FIRE blogger (Ms ONL) contemplated if she would fundamentally change in retirement. I initially commented to her that you are the same person after you retire that you were before. I pointed out to her that I had the same core values, the same … Continue reading Am I Different in Retirement?