Allies in Aging Blog

Karen Grosz remembers a man in the Phoenix neighborhood where she and Paul, her husband, once spent a winter as snowbirds: two and a half hours a day in his garage, television humming, just watching people walk past. Any longer upset the homeowners' association. "And that was his purpose every day," Grosz says. "Just to sit and watch people go by." She's careful not to turn the man in the garage into a cautionary tale. Maybe that really was his contentment, and for some peopl

My wife, Becky and I have learned at least two things since starting our retirement journey four years ago. First, you are never too old to pursue your dreams. Second, getting older does present some challenges. A recent trip we took drove home these two insights for us. Let us introduce ourselves. Beck is a retired Social Worker for the state of Montana. I am a semi-retired pastor for the United Methodist church, still serving a rural parish close to Billings. We star