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The Retirement Newsletter: Looking forward and staring into the void
Welcome
Welcome to issue number 1.
Finally, after more than 63,000 words spread across 147 newsletters, I am retired. It feels good. I can also start giving the newsletters positive issue numbers. Seems weird.
This week, I look to the future and ponder what awaits me as I enter my new career of “being retired”. And yes, I view it as a career. It is not the end. It is a new beginning (Star Wars?).
Planning
I like to say that I have been planning my retirement for 40 years, but that is not true. I have been planning to retire for forty years — I have not been planning my retirement. I have not been planning what I will do in my retirement.
And now, here I am, staring into the abyss. It is both exciting and scary.
The Future — what am I going to do?
As I said above, I will view my retirement as a career. I have some plans and have thought about what I want to do.
Health
This is a concern. I am overweight, and I have a few niggling health issues that I need to address.
