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A Six Word Memoir

Category: Health and Wellness Issues

January 1, 2018 – What better time of the year to think about this project than the first day of a New Year.  Josh Walker over at NextAvenue.org  wrote about their 2016 Facebook challenge to create a very short memoir.

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Published on January 1, 2019
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Costa Rica: Thrills and Nature Bucket List

Category: Adventurous retirement

(Note: this is the first of a 2 part series on Costa Rica. Part 2 focuses on expat retirement in the country. )January 13, 2019 — Does your retirement include a bucket list trip to Costa Rica, one of the world’s greatest ecotourism destinations? This Central American country, situated…

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Published on January 12, 2019
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10 Best of the Best Places to Retire – 2019

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

Updated February 2020 – This list has been updated for 2020 with some new faces: See “10 Best of the Best Places to Retire for 2020“ . January 16, 2019 — Late in 2018 we published a series of Best Places to Retire lists for four U.S. regions. They…

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Published on January 15, 2019
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Older Facebook Users More Likely to Share Fake News

Category: Uncategorized

 January 18, 2019 – The good news is that the vast majority (90%) of Facebook users do not pass along articles that represent fake news. But the bad news is that people over 65 are seven times more likely than younger people to post about articles that are not factual.

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Published on January 18, 2019
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Your Suggestions: Retirement 101 Course

Category: Retirement 101 Course

January 23, 2019 —   We had so many wonderful suggestions (48 comments in all!) on the future direction of our Retirement 101 Course (Module 1) – thank you! They were so helpful that we felt it important to summarize them here. This is a list of all the current “Retirement…

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Published on January 22, 2019
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Retirement 101, Module 2: Retiring on $1 Million (or a Lot Less):

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

Note: This is Module 2 in our Online Retirement Planning 101 Series. See end of article for full list. January 26, 2019 — The overwhelming #1 suggestion for our Retirement 101 series was “How to Retire on Less than $1 million” (smaller numbers were suggested to). Certainly most retirees…

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Published on January 25, 2019
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Where’s There FIRE, There’s Some Smoke Too

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

January 29, 2019 — Perhaps you have heard of the FIRE movement, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. The idea is to retire in one’s late 30s or early 40s by a combination of aggressively cutting down on spending and amassing retirement savings. There are hundreds of thousands of…

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Published on January 28, 2019
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