Retirement

  • Busy,  Retirement,  To Do List

    To Do Lists in Retirement: This May Surprise You

    It surprises a lot of people when they hear that I have a To Do List in retirement. I have gotten some push back over it on my channel, so I dive deep to explain how my To Do List evolved and became necessary. I’ve added layers to it, tweaked it, and had to learn some hard lessons – yes – with a To Do List. I had to learn how to manage it and not let it manage me. You can watch it HERE.

  • Reading,  Retirement,  Shopping,  Uncategorized

    A Week of Shopping, Seeing Friends, and Enjoying Ourselves

    Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Sharing our wonderful little Grands. River is playing baseball and really good at it. It might be t-ball – I’m not exactly sure. Trace, it’s been told, also thinks he is on the team, lol. Trace is getting to be so big as he’s chasing after big bro. They have had a fun Easter filled with all the Easter Egg hunts and Easter baskets – from home, church, and school and/or daycare. Oh the joys of childhood! News from Texas is great with our daughter’s career going well and so is my SIL. Both work so hard. Katy’s title has Assistant Principal in it now. She…

  • Contentment,  Happiness,  Retirement,  Uncategorized

    A Week of Contentment and Joy

    It’s been a fun week this week and a week of just inner joy, enjoying retirement – no real place I had to be and just being able to live a slow but yet fulfilling few days. I have been bad about writing. I am trying to figure out why because it used to be the first thing I did when I got up. I was anxious to tell the world about my day the day before. Now it doesn’t seem that urgent to get my thoughts out there in the world. I tell a lot of my story on YouTube, I no longer feel the need to “tell my…