Come on Bill. Here’s a link to the Peabody Duck Walk.
Read the WSJ article about retirement and how things can often go sidewise even when you think you know what you’re talking about. Looking back on my life with my husband, we managed to do exactly what the author said he and his wife should have done. We downsized and travelled first. We did pay for long term care that did eventually get called on toward the end of my husband’s life. Mine stopped when I moved out of the states in 2023. Where I am now, health care costs have been pretty manageable so far.
Love the whole reimagining of Shakespeare, his wife Ann Hathaway and their children. Such a talented man could not be devoid of deep passion so there had to be a driver all that passion; a focus. I think our lit courses in schools(such as they may still be)sell the studied authors short when the focus is strictly on what they wrote and not the why.
As a side note, Will and Anne were probably very lucky to have lost only one child in an age when children and adults were carried off on the wings of disease as easily as feathers in a tornado. Hamnet could have died of what was then known as morbid sore throat(diphtheria)as the plague or any of the myriad diseases that stalked society then.
Have already watched “The Diplomat”. I fell in love with that show last year and am already looking forward to next season and who she’s going to try to seduce next. Allison Janny is truly superb in this show as the president instead of press secretary or chief of staff where she shown first in “The West Wing”, which I still rewatch on DVD.
Hope you are having a good weekend Bill. Happy, happy. Christmas is next 🎅.
Could not read the article WSJ article as it is my life at the moment. My husband went off on disability with cancer four years ago. Then in May this year, he was diagnosed with dementia. My great plans to travel are reduced to 15 minutes of telling him he needs to put on pants before he goes outside. One of these days he will get out before I catch him. But at least he wears underwear. I am continuing to plan travel for when he goes into long term care, which is closer than we both realize. In a way it’s better, because we always travelled to where he wanted to go, not where I wanted.
We have a hotel in our city with ducks in a pond. And one with a marmot in the front yard. We also have a downtown park where peacocks roam all summer. Great way to interact with nature. Ducks are such messy animals though.
It will be interesting to see if the women’s families stay close when the women themselves are gone. I grew up in a close family, had multiple clan gatherings over the year. When my grandparents died, the gatherings dropped down to special days. Then my dad died and my aunt went into a seniors homes and I only see my cousins at funerals. Haven’t seem most of my siblings or their kids in more than five years. Things change, people change. For me, I would not ant those people up in my business all the time.
https://youtube.com/shorts/io5_k_U9REg?si=sXaZpEOyLvKWRUpJ
Come on Bill. Here’s a link to the Peabody Duck Walk.
Read the WSJ article about retirement and how things can often go sidewise even when you think you know what you’re talking about. Looking back on my life with my husband, we managed to do exactly what the author said he and his wife should have done. We downsized and travelled first. We did pay for long term care that did eventually get called on toward the end of my husband’s life. Mine stopped when I moved out of the states in 2023. Where I am now, health care costs have been pretty manageable so far.
Love the whole reimagining of Shakespeare, his wife Ann Hathaway and their children. Such a talented man could not be devoid of deep passion so there had to be a driver all that passion; a focus. I think our lit courses in schools(such as they may still be)sell the studied authors short when the focus is strictly on what they wrote and not the why.
As a side note, Will and Anne were probably very lucky to have lost only one child in an age when children and adults were carried off on the wings of disease as easily as feathers in a tornado. Hamnet could have died of what was then known as morbid sore throat(diphtheria)as the plague or any of the myriad diseases that stalked society then.
Have already watched “The Diplomat”. I fell in love with that show last year and am already looking forward to next season and who she’s going to try to seduce next. Allison Janny is truly superb in this show as the president instead of press secretary or chief of staff where she shown first in “The West Wing”, which I still rewatch on DVD.
Hope you are having a good weekend Bill. Happy, happy. Christmas is next 🎅.
“… when the focus is strictly on what they wrote and not the why.”
Isn’t that the case with most things? Simon Sinek wrote a thought-provoking book titled Start With Why and has a cool video:
https://youtu.be/u4ZoJKF_VuA
The West Wing was such a good show filed with wonderful characters like Allison Janey and Martin Sheen:
https://youtu.be/VKhTFDBj-rw
Could not read the article WSJ article as it is my life at the moment. My husband went off on disability with cancer four years ago. Then in May this year, he was diagnosed with dementia. My great plans to travel are reduced to 15 minutes of telling him he needs to put on pants before he goes outside. One of these days he will get out before I catch him. But at least he wears underwear. I am continuing to plan travel for when he goes into long term care, which is closer than we both realize. In a way it’s better, because we always travelled to where he wanted to go, not where I wanted.
We have a hotel in our city with ducks in a pond. And one with a marmot in the front yard. We also have a downtown park where peacocks roam all summer. Great way to interact with nature. Ducks are such messy animals though.
It will be interesting to see if the women’s families stay close when the women themselves are gone. I grew up in a close family, had multiple clan gatherings over the year. When my grandparents died, the gatherings dropped down to special days. Then my dad died and my aunt went into a seniors homes and I only see my cousins at funerals. Haven’t seem most of my siblings or their kids in more than five years. Things change, people change. For me, I would not ant those people up in my business all the time.