Tag: retiring
Not For The Weather
So why, then? They are asked that question often. A couple who had devoted their entire lives together restoring enormous houses and filling them with extended families of rather remarkable complexity and number removed themselves from the epi-center of their startled progeny’s universe and struck off on their solitary quest. They patched up and painted... Read more »
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November 10, 2011 at 5:18 pm
November 10, 2011 at 5:18 pm
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Mel
Retirement brings life changes, and a change of residence isn't unusual. Florida, Arizona, Mexico- are popular destinations as folks down-size, heading south out of town stopping briefly to drop off "perfectly good" overcoats and mufflers at Good Will. We chose a different venue, stepping into a surrounding of unanticipated delights and challenges. It was an unusual choice for a pair of septuagenarians; we had our reasons, but it was certainly- NOT FOR THE WEATHER
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