early retirement

Thirty-Nine Years of Retirement

This entry was posted in Retirement advice Retirement life planning and tagged early retirement happiness in retirement healthy aging money in retirement on June 26, 2017 by Mariella

Tales of Retirement

By Claude Lafreniere
Engineering Lab Supervisor, Personnel Department Manager, Semi-Conductor Buyer
Retired 1978

Claude Lafreniere is a francophone person who lives in Montreal, Quebec. Although he rarely speaks English, he offered to write this article in

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The motivations behind volunteering in retirement

This entry was posted in Non-monetary retirement issues Purpose and passion retirement activities and tagged early retirement identity purpose and passion in retirement volunteer work in retirement on November 23, 2016 by Mariella

Retirement Stats, Studies, and Stuff

Guest Writer:
Luc Cousineau, MA, PhD Student, University of Waterloo

Luc Cousineau is a Doctoral student in the department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. His line of inquiry focuses

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Retirement: out with a whimper, not a bang

This entry was posted in Non-monetary retirement issues Purpose and passion and tagged burnout early retirement happiness identity on June 14, 2016 by Mariella

Tales of Retirement

Jean Murphy
French Immersion Kindergarten Teacher
‘Retired’ 2007

After many years of ‘passion and purpose’ teaching French Immersion Kindergarten, I was forced to retire a year early. That is, one year before I had reached my ‘X’ …

Gems from year one 2

This entry was posted in Purpose and passion Retirement advice Retirement life planning and tagged early retirement happiness identity life transitions mixed emotions on August 30, 2015 by Mariella

Favourite Quotations from this Newsletter
August 2014 to July 2015

To celebrate the first year of this newsletter, I spent days rereading all the articles submitted from August 2014 to July 2015 from our contributing writers. I pulled out the …