As a follow-up to the post a week ago showing motherhood and goslings on our pond, I looked for the goose family when walking the path to the river near our house. https://www.postworksavvy.com/motherhood-on-our-pond/ Three or four adult geese swam in the sunshine. As they approached the marshy area near the edge, a noisy skirmish arose. […]
Hobbies
Pursue Neglected Interests in Retirement
Retirement is a great time to pursue neglected interests. The busy years of parenting and career building often leave no time to pursue hobbies, go to movies, read best sellers, or learn new skills. These are also years where interests get postponed due to costs in terms of money and/or time. Mortgages and post-secondary education costs […]
Personal Brands — Do you have a retirement brand?
A recent Facebook post advertising a brand updating service caught my eye. Since I don’t sell things, I wondered whether this company did personal branding. The website featured corporate brands, logos, slogans, websites, and marketing kitsch. An email inquiry acknowledged the expertise was primarily corporate branding but the company would prepare a personal branding strategy […]
Saying Good-bye to Favourite Books
To date, saying good-bye to favourite books has been the most painful aspect of the de-cluttering and purging experience as we prepare to sell our house. Readers know that my husband and I are in the midst of a ‘basement bootcamp’. We are purging One long wall of the finished area of the basement […]
21 Days Without my Husband — Making a Baby Quilt
Day 13 — Last week I made a baby quilt for our first grandchild. Thank goodness I am home alone — no cooking, no housework and no opportunity to keep up with daily blog posts. Last Monday I realized that a deadline loomed — a baby shower for our daughter-in-law would be held in six days […]
Why blog during retirement?
Why do you spend so much of your retirement blogging? What are you getting from writing a blog? Don’t you get bored with writing? Isn’t it lonely spending so much time in front of your computer? Is your blog worth the time and money you are investing in it? Aren’t there other retirement hobbies that you want to pursue? These […]
Retirement — How will you keep learning?
September always feels like the start of a new year. It’s amazing how the school calendar shapes the culture of North America. Thousands of children, adolescents and young adults head back to classrooms in September. Anticipation and an eagerness for learning fills their eyes. The urge to study, to take a course or to register to […]
