Getting Some Help One of the adjustments that is part of life once you end your working years is adjusting to living on a different kind of income.  We get used t that regular paycheck over the life ...

Growing into Your Rocking Chair When you want a child to be more mature, you commonly say, “Act your age.”  This phrase gets a lot of use even for adults, probably mostly for middle aged men who laps...

How to Walk Away Life is full of transitions.  And your transition from a busy adult life to the more relaxed lifestyle of retirement and senior citizen status has its fair share of adjustments too. ...

Conquering the Food Budget One of the things that takes some getting used to as a senior citizen is living on a fixed income.  And even if you have a healthy retirement, investments, a 401K plan and ...

Getting Up a Good Head of Steam When you were thinking about the life you would live as a senior citizen, you may have held that old idea of sitting on a rocking chair and watching the world go by.  ...

Jumping Jack Flash Back in the nineteen sixties when the rock and roll was just getting started, there was this little old rock and roll band out of England that got some attention.  You may have hea...

Keeping Your Marriage Fresh in Retirement You may be able to remember that year when the last of your kids moved out.  That first year that you are “empty nesters” had a lot of adjustments.  But one ...

Cut Your Caregiver Some Slack Part of the organization system that is recommended for most senior citizens is the active presence of a close family member or friend who takes the role of “caregiver”....