O.K., you folks who have been reading my GrandmaMolly blog for so many years. Here is a new direction and I hope many of you will comment and give me feedback and tell your own stories.
A short back story here: Used to be that in every situation I was the youngest person there. And then, not so suddenly I realize that I am the oldest person there. Yikes! Where did all that time go? I am still in that fifteen year old body but with major wrinkles!
Of course, I was working and totally immersed in it. At sixty-five I retired from being a school director and teacher. I did not actually look forward to being retired but my husband also retired at sixty-five so we went into that unknown territory together. We settled in the homestead on our ranch and have been perfecting it with lovely gardens, our home grown veggies, and the amazing far rural life in the Green Swamp, far from civilization.
This journey for both of us has been interesting and revealing. We have been fortunate not having to scrabble for an income to support us. But what are we to do to sustain us?
Quickly, I settled in to writing a memoir of my education work and I loved getting up each morning to work on this. I now have a "room of my own", a studio where I now write and make art and dance to my own music.
We traveled the world, as most prosperous retirees do, and loved it. Now, we are not keen on all the necessary arrangements that have to be made for complicated travel, though we do it sometimes. In the meantime, our grandchild count rose to eight, so we spend a lot of time (and money!) seeing them in their places and ours.
We are fairly content, always intellectual partners, comfortable most of the time in a long term marriage.
So, lots of topics to address- physical aging, health, our volunteer activities.
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