We’ve been busy experiencing the retired life and I must say, I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’m a little surprised at how quickly this has come to feel “normal.” I never fail to have gratitude for being able to experience it. It’s amazing how you cannot fathom tolerating things you tolerated while …
Interesting behavior I’m noticing in myself now with only being about a month and a half into retirement. It’s kind of a rebellion against having to do things—ANYTHING. Granted, there’s really not much that I “have” to do anymore. Yes, the dogs need to be fed each day, there’s general cleaning, laundry, that stuff and …
I’ve realized my goal/thought that I would write every day may have been a bit ambitious and, after all, I don’t think my favorite newspaper columnists used to write a column every single day, so I’ve reconciled that in my brain. I thought I had my retirement routine down, I had “found my groove” and …
I know I will never be able to predict where my brain will go with selecting a topic to write about and I like it that way because I can just go with whatever hits me as my mind wanders, (get it?—“Wandering Gray.”) The Fisherman will say that’s an understatement that my mind wanders, and …
One month into retirement and I’ve noticed a number of things. First, it’s not immediately an easy thing to grasp. I mean, as I said many times leading up to it, it’s like that comedy line about skydiving: “Who jumps out of a perfectly good airplane?!” In keeping with that, my thought was, “Who walks …
You found me and thank you in advance for visiting my blog/website “Wandering Gray.” Let me explain how I got here to this blog–oh where here to begin?…..For 18 years I worked in Radio then I moved to a PR/Marketing position with a lot of doubts as to whether leaving Radio was the right thing …
Observations on getting used to being one of those gray-haired retired people 