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Recently Tom Watson, an eight time major champion indicated that he would no longer participate in the golf championships at the Masters in Augusta, GA. The main factor for shelving the event was the course length. Watson indicated to the press that his greatest regret at this point was that his time…

Leon Delong got restless and decided to do something meaningful after he retired. He heard that city office towers were routinely throwing away half-used rolls of toilet paper. Leon began to gather them and deliver them to a local food bank, where they were given to those in need. He has been doing that…

As baby boomers begin to reach retirement age their prolific spending patterns are sending many of them into retirement still in debt. “The number of Americans 60 and over in debt is alarming,” according to a report by the AARP’s Public Policy Institute. The study shows that Americans over age 50 carry…

Economists have long warned of the coming economic difficulty when the number of Baby Boomers retiring overwhelms the remaining workers and crashes the Social Security system. One letter writer in World Magazine reminds the readers of the 40 million taxpayers removed from the work force by the terror…

Hammond Stith, sixty-one at the time, concluded that there are seven constructive things that retirees can do with their time. “You can work and you can play and you can sleep. You can improve your mind or you can improve your health. You can work in civic activities or educational activities, or you…

Similarly, for every twenty books written on retirement, there may be only one that has any worthwhile treatment of the important personal issues. The result is that many people spend forty years building an impressive retirement nest egg, but no time at all thinking about how they are going to enjoy…

A recent study by researchers David Evans and Terry Lynn Gall concluded that although most Canadian workers viewed retirement as a positive step, only about a third looked forward to it and adjusted well. In fact, 16 percent of those interviewed saw nothing good about it. “We are a society not only obsessed…

The best time to think about your retirement is before your boss does. How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, Ernie J. Zelinski, page 7

A study of Harvard University graduates at age 75 yielded a surprising result. Among 100 men who had retired at 65, seven out of eight were dead by age 75. In a second group of 100 who had worked beyond 65, only one in eight had died by age 75. The researchers concluded that retiring too early in life…

Retirement in a trailer park through the eyes of a child After a spring break, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent the holidays. One child wrote the following: “We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarded…

The world seems to worship youth and is terrified of aging. But there was a time when getting older was associated with wisdom and experience. In fact, some of the greatest accomplishments in history came very late in life. Immanuel Kant wrote one of his best philosophical works at the age of 74. Verdi…