Two of the adjustments that often come with retirement involve changing habits and habitat. Not everyone moves from their home, but many choose to resettle elsewhere. Habitat change is an upheaval that some choose not to go through. Habits, however, are a universal phenomena in retirement. Our day to day routine for the newly retired [...]

What joy remains! August 31 marked our wedding anniversary. It was 1975 and we blended a family, closed out my five years of being a bachelor since divorce, ended the single life for my spouse, who was then 32. It was, as most times are, a time of paradigm shifts. Thirty-three years later, what has [...]

The Book of Acts in the Good News version of the New Testament refers to the occasion of the first Pentecost after Jesus’ death. Pentecost, a Jewish tradition, had been adopted and adapted by Christians. In the Christian tradition it falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. The second chapter of Acts speaks of a [...]