http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2008/05/20/are-you-still-somebody/ ripe living after 50, with Susan Swartz Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2008/05/20/are-you-still-somebody/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Paula Shatkin Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:11:51 +0000 http://yellowskymedia.com/testYSM/?p=26#comment-14 I loved this piece for opposite reasons than Jan. I think we WILL probably get competitive about who can do MORE in retirement and be more active than the next person, but I also think we should try not to. What is really wrong with slowing down, taking more time to do less, think more, feel more, sleep more, taste more??? lets not buy into the mainstream definition of a person's worth being measurable only by what they DO. I loved this piece for opposite reasons than Jan. I think we WILL probably get competitive about who can do MORE in retirement and be more active than the next person, but I also think we should try not to. What is really wrong with slowing down, taking more time to do less, think more, feel more, sleep more, taste more??? lets not buy into the mainstream definition of a person’s worth being measurable only by what they DO.

]]> http://www.juicytomatoes.com/2008/05/20/are-you-still-somebody/comment-page-1/#comment-9 jan Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:27:58 +0000 http://yellowskymedia.com/testYSM/?p=26#comment-9 I loved this piece! You couldn't have nailed it better. I felt like I was reading about myself. If one more people asks me how I like retirement, I'm going to nail them! I do not consider myself retired and to show the world (because I guess I think I have to), I am working two days a week and the other days are structured in my daily planner. I am attempting to write a fiction book and consider that my new career, which as it stands will probably take me to my grave. The two days of working "out of the home" are to bring in some money. Retired? Who me? Trust our generation to turn that word on its ear. I loved this piece! You couldn’t have nailed it better. I felt like I was reading about myself. If one more people asks me how I like retirement, I’m going to nail them! I do not consider myself retired and to show the world (because I guess I think I have to), I am working two days a week and the other days are structured in my daily planner.
I am attempting to write a fiction book and consider that my new career, which as it stands will probably take me to my grave. The two days of working “out of the home” are to bring in some money.
Retired? Who me? Trust our generation to turn that word on its ear.

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