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Retirement:  It’s Closing In, Thankfully

Retirement:  It’s Closing In, Thankfully

As you may or may not know, I’m retiring from the world of work at the end of this year (just 338 days to go at the publishing of this blog entry – not that I’m counting or anything).  It’s a funny thing, the reactions I get when I tell people this fact.  First, they always look me up and down and quizzically ask, “how old are you?”  When I tell them I’ll be fifty-seven at the end of this…

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Retirement:  The End Is Near!  (At Least For Me)

Retirement:  The End Is Near!  (At Least For Me)

Retirement. It is the dream we’ll never catch, right?  It’s hard not to read an article about how working adults don’t save enough for their retirement, how much longer they’ll have to work (if they can stop at all), the “gloom and doom” forecast of Social Security and Medicare, or the staggering amounts of accumulated assets pundits say you’ll need to survive (which are grossly inaccurate, by the way).  You get the idea. All my life, I’ve tried to prepare…

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