My husband and I will celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary this summer and what an incredible ride it has been. We had a very casual (and small, less than a dozen people) ceremony on the side of a hill in the high desert north of Los Angeles where we had planned to build one […]
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I have been doing stain glass projects for more than 30 years. It all started when I passed a small stain glass studio in a “strip mall” near our condominium in Southern California. There was a sign in the window advertizing a class that was being offered to beginners that I noticed one day […]
Ten years ago we moved from Southern California to Maine. Both my husband and I had been born and raised in California, leaving the state for a few years in our early 20s for college and jobs. Although we didn’t know each other, we both returned to California in the mid-1970s where we met and […]
Ten years ago last month, we signed the escrow papers to buy our retirement home in Maine. We had talked so often about where and what kind of place we wanted to be in retirement, that when we first saw this log cabin, just a fifteen minute drive from the University of Maine and twenty […]
My husband and I were out to dinner last night at one of our favorite local restaurants. It happens to be located in the small downtown area near our local university. On any Saturday night during the school year (and especially on nights when the hockey team is at home) it is a bustling place. […]
In my last post I talked about how entering retirement debt free was probably the best pre-retirement decision I made. Or more accurately, the best decision my husband and I made together. But after we both retired and settled in Maine near the state’s flagship university, we made what just might be our best post-retirement […]
When you live in a small community with a major university the seasons are often defined by the academic calendar rather than the Gregorian Calendar. Where the Gregorian calendar begins in January (shortly after the start of winter), the traditional academic calendar begins in the dog days of summer long before the autumn chill and […]
Being retired isn’t for everyone. At least that is what my other half likes to say. In a way, I have to agree with him, but not for the reasons you might think. A successful retirement requires more than just having enough money in your 401K or defined pension to meet your obligations or avocations. […]
We moved to Maine from California six years ago. It was a difficult decision as we were both born in Southern California and had lived there for more than five decades. We had lots of friends there though not much family. He said he never wanted to travel east of the Rockies, but then both […]
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