People ask me about my health insurance a lot. For the first few years of my retirement, I paid for Obamacare. It wasn’t ideal because of the high deductible and I used it only for physicals, which were free and showed me in good health. Whenever I traveled, which was always, I paid out of… Read More: Health insurance and early retirement in the United States of… »
More thoughts on more books I’ve read recently! I’ve started on some of your recommendations from last month and LOVE everything you’ve suggested so far. Keep them coming! My to-read list is my motivation to keep existing. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens This is Reese Witherspoon’s book club selection. Did you know Reese… Read More: What you should read next – June 2019 – “I… »
Introverts beware of retirement I’m an introvert. When I had a job and worked weekdays at said job, I remember the glee I felt on Saturdays mornings when I had no plans. I would lay in bed and plot out my nothing of a day. Only alone can I fully recharge and relax and be.… Read More: On life as a single FI woman »
Oh, six-pack. I was happy with my abs after about four months of consistent working out. More than happy. I was embracing them and high-fiving them and generally getting all up in their space. I was thrilled with my abs after seven months of consistent working out. More than thrilled. Ecstatic. Euphoric. Rhapsodic. My abs… Read More: The six-pack-ab diet »
I visited Chicago earlier this month. The first few nights I stayed at my cousin’s place in the city proper. She has a house with four bathrooms and I had my own bedroom. They have an outdoor patio with a fireplace that will make you drool. After Chicago, I went to visit my parents in… Read More: More downsides to (my version of) retirement »
I have a lot of beautiful people staring at me from my desk this month. They’re all books designed to motivate and educate on fitness. If I’m honest, I’m rather sick of self help books and it seems my reading list is brimming with mostly those. Any suggestions for good fiction thrillers? Or memoirs? Maybe… Read More: What you should read next – May 2019 – “You… »
Some people can separate their home lives from their work lives cleanly and efficiently. They get up and go to work and do their work and chat with their work friends and they appreciate the work day and the working paycheck and I imagine them whistling as they go about their working morning. Then, after… Read More: How do you fit in life when you’re working? »
More than a year ago, I started a project I called the Year of the Body. If my math is correct, my year has been over for more than six months. I never finished this project because I think it might be the greatest thing I’ve ever done. I liked it so much that I… Read More: The Year of the Body – Do It »
There was one day after I saved my first $100,000 and before I retired where I stopped worrying about money. I don’t remember when it was exactly, but overnight, my perception shifted and not having enough money to do what I want stopped nagging me. The biggest protection against devastation is building in a lot… Read More: Build in a lot of cushions when planning for retirement »
I’m still writing these recipe articles, but publishing them as pages on my blog and not as posts on the front page and emails out to everyone. Starting now! This is the last one in your inbox. It’s time for another saga from Operation Recipes! Pronounced bope-lah, this Italian Squash might look innocuous, but it… Read More: Bhopla bhaji – Italian Squash, six-ingredients to yum »