LivingThe Cheapest Places to Retire (And Why Cheap Is the Wrong Word)
The most affordable places to retire are not the saddest ones. They are, quite often, the most alive.
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At LargeThe Password
I have forty-seven passwords and the memory of a woman who found her reading glasses in the refrigerator.
LivingThe Best Golf Clubs for Seniors: What Your Swing Actually Needs Now
Your body changed. Your swing changed. It might be time your clubs caught up.
LivingAustin, Texas: What Retirees Actually Think After Moving Here
I spent two weeks in Austin talking to people who moved there after sixty. Some of them love it. Some of them are already looking at the Hill Country. All of them have opinions about the heat.
LivingThe Marriage That Went Quiet
Not a fight. Not an affair. Not a betrayal anyone could name. Just two people in the same house who stopped arriving at each other.
TravelThe Best States to Retire In: An Honest Assessment From Someone Who Has Driven Through All of Them
Everybody ranks the states. Nobody tells you what they feel like on a Wednesday in January. Here is what I know after seventy years and a lot of windshield time.
TravelRetire in Portugal: What I Found When I Went Looking
Every retirement conversation I've had in three years eventually turns to Portugal. So I went back, walked the streets, and wrote down what I actually found.
Since You AskedSince You Asked: The Silent Marriage
We aren't fighting. We aren't unhappy. We just don't have anything to say.
IdeasRetirement Hobbies: Who Decided You Need One?
The prescription was invented. The hobbies are just the product.
TravelThe Best Places to Retire in America: What I Found After Looking at Fifty of Them
Most best-places-to-retire lists are written by people who have never spent a week in the places they recommend. I have spent years.
Since You AskedSince You Asked: The Person You Were at Work
You don't miss the job. You miss the person the job let you be.
MoneyThe Long-Term Care Conversation Nobody Is Having
The most expensive financial event of your life might be the one you haven't planned for. The numbers are available. Almost nobody looks.
MoneyWhy You Can't Make Yourself Spend the Money
You saved for forty years. Now you can't bring yourself to touch it. You're not alone, and it's not about the money.
MoneyThe Social Security Math They Don't Show You
You can claim at 62 and feel smart for getting out early. Or you can wait and collect 77% more per month for the rest of your life. The numbers are not ambiguous.
IdeasWho Invented Retirement (And Why It Might Be the Wrong Idea)
The age 65 was not discovered. It was decided. Here is who decided it, and when, and why.
MoneyThe Fee They Never Show You
Every mutual fund has an expense ratio. Most people in retirement accounts have no idea what theirs is, and the fund companies are not going to remind them.