Cooking the NYTimes and Other Assorted Retirement Activities

  It's all in how you frame it, isn't it?  Your perspective?  How you choose to look at things, your focus, the way you take the good with the bad?  Permit the bad to simmer until it all burns away?   This was, for me, the first time in a long time that I gave myself over to the bad and wow, what a ride.  I allowed the emotions to suck me under and stay there as I felt necessary, holding back on the urge to seek the surface prematurely.  Along the way, there have been multiple instances of assistance without the assistor knowing how critically important their actions were to me.  For example, the song at the end of water aerobics includes the lyrics, "I've got a new lease on life."  A couple of my friends in the pool nudged me when that refrain played. "That's you," one said.  "You literally have a new lease on life."  Yoga pushed me out of my head onto the mat, providing a flossing that not only stretched muscles sore from the...

  I've got to admit it's getting better A little better all the time (Can't get no worse) Allow me to begin with, I still want a house. I crave being outdoors (at minimum, May through let's go with early to mid-October here in Minnesota and then, as you all know, enjoy the holidays indoors, pack up the decorations, then the car, then hightail it for Florida). This isn't to say that apartment living isn't for me.  As a temporary stop on the road to the one level home many continue to encourage me is just waiting out there, our new apartment is really fitting the bill as a home, not solely a waystation until said home shows up on the MLS.  With fewer boxes to unpack (surprise!  there are the towels!  rats! I thought for sure photos from the family room I had been seeking would be here), furniture in place and, I might add, working out quite nicely, it's getting better all the time.  Operation of the hot and cold faucets still challenge me but I haven't bee...