Wecome to Making it in Retirement

I love retirement. I’m not sure ever did not love (or at least like a lot) being retired. Even though it was forced on me at a fairly early age. Even though due to my own financial stumbles life has required adjustments. Even though with two chronic and two autoimmune diseases I am not doing the things at this time in retirement that I did twelve years ago when retirement began.

I enjoy controlling my own time. I enjoy doing almost nothing. I enjoy sitting on the patio and reading. I enjoy traveling and discovered late in life that the smaller trips are as fun and meaningful as the ones that cross oceans. I enjoy lunching with friends, hanging out and making art on a restaurant patio with people who are all half my age and much much more.

But mainly I love making. Making things, but also making food and making fun, and more. Really, I like to make stuff. Most of that stuff is physical, like food, art and words, but not all. I make stuff for me, to give to others, to sell. Even when I am doing the so -called experience part of life, I am making on some level.

And that is what I need to write about here. Much of the year (in addition to adjusting to new health and other issues) has been spent figuring out how to do that and if I wanted to do that and if people will read about that-at least the people who have been patient with me and hung around this blog.

And so here I am, back full time. Much of what is in those first few paragraphs will become my new “about me/meet Barb” introduction. 

It will be an experiment, but I have the rough outlines. I will still blog about retirement and the good and bad and okay things that happen along the way, but much more will be about the doing portion. I imagine more than a few posts will be short and to the point, pictures only and some will be picture heavy. But there will still be plenty of room for long missives like this one, occasional posts having to do with retirement money, and anything else I decide to write about.

You may hear more about making dinner, making quilts, making road trips or anything else than you want to, or it may be just what you want. I leave it to you, but starting today we are really, really about Making it in Retirement in these parts.