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Audiobooks to the Rescue

Category: Home and Garden

September 2, 2020 — Spending more time walking, cooking, taking the dog out, exercising, or gardening during the pandemic? One great way to get double the pleasure out of these activities is to listen to a good book while you are doing them. All you need is your phone and…

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Published on September 2, 2020
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I Am Getting Ready to Retire and I Am Looking for… Great Food and Culture

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

September 2, 2020 — There are are tens of millions of baby boomers, and just about every one of us has a slightly different retirement dream. Some might have one requirement in common, but the two or three other things on their lists make them unique. In this new series…

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Published on September 1, 2020
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Fans Can Now Have a Last Goodbye from Mickey

Category: Family and Retirement

August 26, 2020 – Do you know someone completed devoted to Walt Disney characters or Disneyland/Disneyworld? MagicalPassings can arrange for loved ones to say goodbye with the help of Disney characters and themes. According to their website, the company “specializes in customized and themed end of…

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Published on August 26, 2020
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Very Interesting: 10 Great Towns for Retirement

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

August 26, 2020 — You are probably only going to have one retirement, so you might as well make the most of it. At least, that’s the way we think about it. So why settle for a “nice” place to retire, when you have actually have the option to go…

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Published on August 25, 2020
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Pets, Retirement, and the Pandemic: A Good Mix?

Category: Family and Retirement

August 19, 2020 — If you are like a lot of the people we know, the pandemic might have led you into thinking about adding a pet to the family. Across the country and maybe the world, animal shelters and rescue operations have slimmer pickings, and breeders are not returning…

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Published on August 18, 2020
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What Type of Community And Amenities Are You Looking for?

Category: Retirement Planning

August 11, 2020 — Retirement lifestyles and preferences keep evolving, and we are eager to see where our esteemed Members stand on a number of key issues. Now that we are in a pandemic preferences might even be more fluid. Please take this quick, 10 question survey on the size…

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Published on August 11, 2020
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Where Is Your First Post-Covid Travel Experience Going to Be?

Category: Travel

August 11, 2020 – Someday this whole wretched Covid experience is going to be behind us. Just when – nobody knows – dependent on when we start to take it seriously, get an effective vaccine, a cure, or heaven help us, herd immunity. So when that happy day comes, we…

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Published on August 10, 2020
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14 Great Places to Retire in the Mid-Atlantic States

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

August 4, 2020 — Not everybody’s retirement dream is to pack up and move to the Carolinas, Florida, or Arizona. In fact most retirees never move far from they lived when they stopped working. The Mid-Atlantic states have a big advantage for people who live in that region or the…

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Published on August 4, 2020
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Caring for My Father with Dementia: A Memoir

Category: Eldercare

August 2, 2020 — This Article is an excerpt from a new book, “I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird”, by Susan Cerulean. The memoir poignantly recalls her experience caring for her father (my father-in-law) as he suffered from dementia, and makes powerful connections to the natural world around us.

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Published on August 2, 2020
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