Category Archives: Retirement
The Ups & Downs of Volunteer as a Crossing Guard
Giving back to your community, after you’d, retired, you’d found, that brand new, purpose in your, life here, translated… When we’re, out, whether it be at the important ramps, or the regular streets, we can see those, voluntary traffic guards … Continue reading
Posted in After Retirement...Work Some More, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, Retirement, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Finding that Second Life After Retirement, the Generativity vs. Stagnation of One's Life
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My Empty Nest
As your children all leave and start their work, their lives, away from home, you’ll, surely, feel, that empty nest “attacking” you all right! Translated… With the trends in reproduction of the country, the different eras had the different patterns. … Continue reading
On the Separation Anxieties for the Parents, on Parenthood
The “onset” of retirement, that brought along, the empty nest, in midlife, translated… Our summers this year got shortened by two weeks, and suddenly, it’s the season when the schools started back up again. I worked in the elementary years … Continue reading
Where Do We Live After We’d Grown Old & Gray
Thoughts…translated… After we ate, the family gathered in the living room, for some tea, and the conversation shifted to how the housing prices are, still, hiking up, it’s now, coming back down any time soon. It’s, too hard for the … Continue reading
Learning Before Retirement
Learning the brand new skill set prior to your retirement, that should be, truly, difficult, especially when you’d been the one, barking at your subordinates from before, now, the shoe’s, on the other foot! Translated… After a Week-Long Training of … Continue reading
Surprises, at the Turns of the Corners of Our Lives, on the Movie: Retired, But Still Active
What the movie had, shown us, that we may need, after our retirements, what this person gained, after watching this movie, translated… There are the four stages of life that everybody goes through in life, “birth, aging, illness, death”, no … Continue reading
My Dutch Grandmother, Come for a Visit at My Home
the photo of the homestay mom’s mother having her birthday celebration, photo from UDN.com… How the elderly in the Netherlands are aging, in their own ways, more gracefully, than most of the elderly in the Asian world, because they were … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude on Growing Older, Elderly Who are Aging Gracefully
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My Dad’s Recital
Picking up a hobby, is especially important, now that you’re, retired, it gives you something else you can do, to focus your energies on! Translated… I’d started worrying, a few short months back after learning that my father was about … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 