- Oct 7
On Ageism Awareness Day
2013 — Just retired and on a trip When I was 65, I stepped down from being Executive Director of Cherry Preschool to mentor the new...
- Jun 20, 2016
Retired: The Forever Young Generation Retools
(Or why a seventy-year-old woman wrote her first book) Published in ChicagoNow, June 20, 2016 My younger brother just retired. So did my...
- Oct 26, 2015
About Joe Biden, Retirement, and New Beginnings
Cartoon by Marcia Liss Published in ChicagoNow October 26, 2015 The media is looking at Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not run for...
- Aug 14, 2014
Taking a Break? Not Sure I Know How
Published in ChicagoNow, August 14, 2014 (Cartoon by Marcia Liss) I fear I have lost the capacity to relax and “do nothing.” After many...
- Jul 31, 2014
My Encore Career as a Blogger: An Unlikely Pilgrimage
Posted in ChicagoNow, July 31, 2014 (Cartoons by Marcia Liss) When I retired last year from my career as a preschool director, I was at...
- Mar 12, 2014
10 Things I’ve Learned as a New Blogger
Published in ChicagoNow, March 12, 2014 When I first started blogging at the end of September, I thought it would be a piece of cake. I...
- Sep 26, 2013
Reinvented, Not Retired
My first blog post, published in Chicago Now, September 26, 2013 I’m entering the blogosphere at age 68, retired but not really. I was...