Retirement: Review, Reflection and Refinement

Hello again! I'm still not quite ready to get going on the weekly blog posts but I certainly have been preparing.  I've got the photography side of things organized, I've done a bit more reading (because that's what I do) about retirement life and I've made progress in my plans to have more structure to my days and weeks. I have finally finished all of the training to begin volunteering at ARCH (a residential community hospice here in the Sault) and wait for it... I just agreed to return to my former employment as an Occupational Therapist on a temporary casual basis.  I know, I know, I gave up my license when I retired, swearing that I was DONE WITH OT for good (not that I didn't love the work that I did, just that I felt 31 years was enough).  I always planned on finding part time or temporary jobs in fields of interest that didn't require the same brain power and energy as my career did but OT was out. Never say never or you'll have to eat your words....

  Hello out there!  It has been quite a while since I have been here and it certainly shows.  This blog host thingy (also known as Blogger) has changed quite a bit in the past few years and I have spent the better part of four hours off and on today just trying to get this page set up in a format that I think I can tolerate for a year ( I am not completely convinced yet but I have given up fiddling around).  You don't even want to know how long it took before I found the "save" icon after uploading the header photo 😑! Anyway, I believe I'm ready to go so I should explain what I hope to achieve with this version of my blog.  If you read the title description above, you'll see four main goals:  1.  To succeed at retirement. 2.  To resume my photography hobby. 3.  To ensure a happy and healthy future. 4.  To practice gratitude. I'll certainly get into more details as this process progresses but for now, here is a brief (or not so brief) sy...