Category Archives: Retirement itself

Do I Really Have My Father’s Eyes?

Posted on July 29, 2015 by The Retiring Sort

All my life, I’ve been told I had my father’s eyes. Family lore has it that a complete stranger came up to my mother at a county park when I was a baby, pointed to my rosy cheeks and impossibly … Continue reading →

Posted in Health Issues, Retirement itself | Tagged Cataracts, Eye Care, Glaucoma, Near-Sighted | 6 Comments

The Slow Evolution of a New Home

Posted on December 5, 2014 by The Retiring Sort

When my beloved and I purchased our “fixer-upper” retirement home last year, we weren’t thinking The Money Pit – we were seeing possibilities. We had a home inspector and a contractor go through the house with us to help us make a realistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Photo Challenges, Retirement itself, Ruminations | Tagged change, lifestyle, moving on, postaday, postaweek, retirement, retirement planning, Slow, Weekly Travel Theme | 29 Comments

Honey, I’m Home!

Posted on November 22, 2014 by The Retiring Sort

Hi there, strangers. OK, my blogging hiatus has lasted much longer than I had intended. But since this will be both my “I’m Back” announcement, and my 200th post, I’m thinking I should put a little thought into where I … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Retirement itself | Tagged blogging, Blogging Community, lifestyle | 12 Comments

Ancient, Abandoned, and Repurposed

Posted on March 2, 2014 by The Retiring Sort

I’m not always a fan of the way we design new words in English. It’s sometimes a little grating, for example, when we make nouns into verbs. But one of those expressions has caught my eye quite a bit in … Continue reading →

Posted in Photo Challenges, Retirement itself, Ruminations | Tagged Abandoned, aging, Ancient, lifestyle, Re-Purposed, Sense of purpose, Usefulness | 37 Comments

Travel Theme: Wood

Posted on January 26, 2014 by The Retiring Sort

I don’t have to travel far to find images of wood… one of my beloved’s hobbies is wood working. In fact, one of the most daunting “gotta have’s” in our search for a retirement home was an adequate woodshop. Here … Continue reading →

Posted in Photo Challenges, Retirement itself | Tagged lifestyle, photography, Weekly Travel Theme, Wood, Woodworking | 24 Comments

Possibilities and New Beginnings

Posted on January 7, 2014 by The Retiring Sort

Here we are in January again, turning the page of the calendar. January symbolizes fresh starts to many of us, and is even named for Janus, the Roman god of gates, passages, and doors; of beginnings, transitions, and endings. Janus is … Continue reading →