Retirement question!?

Occasionally, someone asks me a technical question about retirement. Can you imagine that!? As if I would know such things!!

This blog is intended merely to convey some of the investment and retirement-related thoughts that occur to me as I approach my own retirement. It was not supposed to be an all-encompassing factual resource for pre- and post-retirees.

But, I have to admit – I have been combing the Internet for just such resources, too. Without much success. The net is full of calculators and check lists and investment advice, but provides relatively little about the overall “project” of preparing for, entering, and living in retirement. But, I recently found a good alternative source of this kind of information.

If you’re willing to leave the net for awhile and employ a very retro-resource – a book – there are some that provide very helpful, broader views of the subject. A recently published, excellent example is The Wall Street Journal – Complete Retirement Guidebook (How to plan it, live it and enjoy it) by Gene Ruffenach and Kelly Green (Three Rivers Press).

This 300-page (small size, large print, lots of graphics), $15.00 paperback does a very good job of helping you define what you really want in retirement. It then provides practical guidance for what you need to do – before and after retirement – to get it.

So, read the book. But, check back here occasionally as you write your own retirement story whenever you need someone to commiserate with.