Tales of an Overachieving RetireeA series of articles about the challenges of bringing overachievement into retirement and finding pleasure in the process
By Peter
Primary English Teacher / Curriculum Advisor
Retired 2009
My …
Thoughts from a Retirement CoachBy Mariella Vigneux, MBA, ACC
Certified Professional Coach
“Edward Perman Cole died in May. It was a Sunday afternoon and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. It’s difficult to understand the sum …
Tales of RetirementJean 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’ …
Tales of RetirementHazel Lyder
‘Poet’
Retired 2012
I am 55 and I have, sort of, configured my life – the nuts and bolts of earning a living and setting up housekeeping – on a super …
Thoughts from a Retirement CoachBy Mariella Vigneux, MBA, ACC
Certified Professional Coach
In the previous issue you had a chance to measure how well you’re doing in retirement. I referred to it as taking your pulse. (See …
Tales of RetirementRose Morley
Elementary School Teacher
Retired June 2013
Whenever I start something new, I have to make a book of it. And I do mean ‘of’ rather than ‘about.’ Some carefully chosen blank journal or notebook in …
