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Report From The Road
April 12, 2013
A satisfying retirement greeting from Fort Stockton, Texas. Our first extended RV trip is well underway and we are still alive, speaking to each other, seeing new sights, and meeting new friends. Bailey has made the transition to RV dog without a hitch, except for ... Read more »
Other Featured Articles on Money
A Major Change After Three Decades
April 5, 2013
The desert is beautiful in its own way and I have come to appreciate it. The colors and smells after a rain are like no place else. For a few weeks the normally brown hillsides turn as green as a slope in Ireland after the ... Read more »
Managing Money: When Less Is More
April 1, 2013
When it comes to managing money, we hear a lot about abundance. And prosperity. And how we can have what we think about, if we just think long enough and hard enough.There are two situations where that thinking may be a luxury we cannot ... Read more »
Cooking for Relaxation, Really?
March 29, 2013
This is a post I wrote about 18 months ago all about my first attempt to see if cooking was an interest I wanted to explore. Because most readers today were not part of the satisfying retirement family then, I thought you might enjoy my ... Read more »
Honoring Money or What’s in Your Wallet?
March 25, 2013
Oops, I had been outed.I had been living a lie.I say I honor money, have a healthy relationship with it, and yet my bills are in a favorite leather bill holder that is ripping. My credit cards are in a utilitarian black flat ... Read more »
Prison Ministry: What Does It Accomplish?
March 22, 2013
Based on comments left on other Satisfying Retirement posts I know there is continuing interest in the work I do for a local prison ministry organization. The world of prisons and inmates is one I only knew through movies, news stories, and "common knowledge" about ... Read more »
Obsessing Over Money: The Truth About What If
March 18, 2013
It was an early morning call, and I could hear the slight edge of controlled anxiety in her voice. Therese told me she had a large sum of money she expected to receive at any time and she wanted to be sure she was ready ... Read more »
Learning to Budget All Over Again
March 15, 2013
I received the following e-mail from a regular satisfying retirement reader and commenter. Her questions and request for a post focused on budgeting are very much in line with some of the comments left on the post I wrote asking for your ideas for this ... Read more »
Money Headlines
Energy Exports Are Good!
May 18, 2013
The Financial Condition of Pre-Retirees: Precarious
AssetBuilder, May 17, 2013
Britons want more work – let’s help them
Financial Times, May 16, 2013
Budgeting for medical expenses with Medicare
moneywatch.com, May 16, 2013
EU's Oil Probe Years Overdue. Targets Wrong Benchmark
Huffington Post, May 16, 2013
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