How to Stop Boredom From Ruining Your Happy Retirement


by Kiplinger

Kiplinger— Retirees who explore new interests and have an active social life are more likely to find joy — and even greatness — in the newfound freedom of retirement.

Kiplinger—How to Help Your Kids Without Ruining Your Retirement. Here are some general considerations to ensure the gift of assets to your kids will not negatively affect your financial future.

Seven Days—Retirement: Powell & Fleming Retire. After 30 years of practicing naturopathic medicine/acupuncture at 33 Main Street in Burlington, Dr. Donna Powell and Dr. Molly Fleming are retiring at the end of May. Esti Bakty, ND will be assisting our patients and keeping our phone number. We have truly appreciated being part of this community. Let the healing power of nature guide you!

GQ—I Emptied My Retirement Account to Buy Basketball Cards. It Was Thrilling. It Nearly Ruined My Life. Card collectors refer to an unopened sealed box or pack of cards as “wax.” For many collectors, myself included, much of the thrill of the hobby is in opening wax, in the statistically improbable opportunity of finding a card worth more than the pack it’s in. I dwell in possibility, wrote Emily Dickinson. When I buy wax I’m not paying for the cards, I’m paying for the fantasy of what might be inside the pack. In this way the obsession (even now I’m consciously avoiding using the word...