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THE PENULTIMATE DAY: my wife retires tomorrow

May 10, 2010

Tomorrow (May 11) is my wife’s birthday and the day on which she retires from full-time employment.  She will continue as a consultant for her company, Benchmark Assisted Living, the largest provider of Senior Living in New England.  It is not the first employer she has had in the last forty years, but it [...]

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WEISURE: free time spent doing work or work-related tasks. (WordSpy.com)

December 16, 2009

We always joke about the postal delivery person who goes on a hike on her day off, or the carpenter who builds a garage on his vacation. There is even a phrase for it, “Postman’s Holiday,” although when I made reference to that term one day recently the much younger people with whom I [...]

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SEDENTARY: accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise. (Dictionary.com)

November 24, 2009

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Sedentary is a word I hear a lot when I’m in a physician’s office. He drops the word into conversations, not intentionally pointing to me, or referring to me, but being clear that he wants me to hear the word. It’s been made pretty clear to me that men get too sedentary after they retire. [...]

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