Joyfully Retired

Today is INTERNATIONAL READ IN PUBLIC DAY Take your book outdoors. Spread the word. (That’s our lovely Genevieve sitting on the Windsor Town Green.)

I’m off to southern California again. No, not to spend time in a lovely rocking chair. My visit will be centered around re-locating my mom to what we must now call a senior apartment complex. The Director at mom’s new home says we must not call it the A-word, Assisted Living. Actually, I like their [...]

Want to see where I sit and create by blog posts? I have a couple of pictures of my laptop’s space over at Kittling: Books. These aren’t the only places my laptop sits when writing this blog but you’ll get the idea. Come on over and say Hi to both Cathy and me.

Looking back on the books I read in July, I’d say it was a fairly lightweight month. Hidden Wives, a novel about the treatment of girls in polygamist marriages, was the only serious book I read. I read a classic children’s story, Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, a general fiction, Heart On a String, [...]

A group of people who run the Online MBA website often develop awards for various things. This past week they decided to name the Top 25 Retirement Blogs and they added Joyfully Retired to the list. As we used to say back in the 1950s, “Cool!” The other 24 blogs on the list are written [...]

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You [...]

Overall, June was a good reading month for me. What made it special was all of the new people/characters I met. For me there is nothing better than a character-rich novel. Each month during 2010 I’ve been trying to highlight my favorite character of the month. No way can I do that this month. There [...]