Your Retirement Life

“More Money than I Ever Dreamed I’d Have”

“I have more money than I ever dreamed I’d have,” you tell me in my conversations with you. And I understand why you say...

Are We Going to Outlive Our Money Honey?

As we approach year-end, now is as good a time as any to consider your spending. I know, don’t be such a downer, Survival...

How You Livin’?

How you livin’? By the sound of our conversations, I’d say pretty darn great. Just this week you gave me your itinerary for the...

Surviving Your Retirement Life: Rocky Mountain High

In my conversations with you, you’ve been telling me about your retirement life and the trips you’re looking forward to taking. It feels like...

Your Survival Guy to Parents: “Enough is Enough”

Your Survival Guy wrote to you yesterday about how your children will always need you, and about how you never stop being a parent....

Your Survival Guy and Gal in Nantucket, MA

Your Survival Guy and Gal were in Nantucket, MA, last weekend to visit a dear friend from Naples, FL, who was wrapping up a...

Your Survival Guy: Golf Search and Rescue Mission

Your Survival Guy and Son hit the links yesterday at Sunday River Golf Club in Newry, Maine, about an hour north of our cabin...

Your Survival Guy: “It’s Saving Me Too”

Your Survival Guy was having a typical, non-typical call with a client yesterday. It was typical because we talk regularly, and non-typical because of...

“We Are at Teklanika River Campground in Denali”

I hope you’re living your best retirement life like my long-time clients who write: Hi E.J., We are at Teklanika River Campground in Denali National Park. NO...

Work to Retirement #11: Whatcha Gonna Do?

Originally posted May 29, 2025. OK, so you’re retired. You made it. Much like getting through school, it may have been touch and go along...