I've been retired a full year now!! 
How my retirement has changed compared with after the first 6 months.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-08-10-a-year-of-retirement/
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How you balance planning vs spontaneity may change when more of your time is your own #Retirement #NextChapter
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-07-27-planning-vs-spontaneity-in-retirement/
Do retirees need a Sabbath - that is, a day to refrain from work and chores? My latest #NextChapter post:
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-07-13-retirement-and-the-sabbath/
Just back from a 24-hour flying visit to the University of Sheffield with Mrs C and Louis.
Just enough time to soak up the atmosphere, explore the campus, and start picturing the next chapter.
Some great architecture too — captured on a 1976 #Polaroid 1000 Land Camera.
#SheffieldUniversity
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#UniLife
#Sheffield
#PolaroidPhotography
#FilmIsNotDead
#Architecture
I think it's (finally) time to update my retirement morning routine!
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-06-29--rethinking-my-mornings-almost-a-year-into-retirement/
Retirement is prompting me to look at stages of life in different way. https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-06-15-stages-of-life/
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I have more time for fun tech projects like coding a generative AI chatbot for my blog now that I'm retired 
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-06-08-blog-chatbot-fun/
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Retirement seems like a good time to get rid of some things that I no longer need in my new life. But decluttering has been harder than I'd hoped - no matter how much I want less stuff in my home.
Latest #NextChapter:
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-06-01-decluttering-baby-steps/
#Retirement
I began Memorial Day weekend last year mulling how I might want to restructure my job . . . and ended it deciding it was time to retire. What I feared when thinking about leaving my full-time career -- and how things have turned out so far
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-05-18-almost-a-year-since-i-decided-to-retire/
I'm speaking at a conference in September! (For a 5-minute lightning talk)
Like so many other things related to my profession, it's going to be different as a retiree than when I was working full time.
More in my retirement blog: https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-05-04-i-m-speaking-at-a-professional-conference-for-5-minutes/
#NextChapter #Retirement
Ok with the ferocity of these thunderstorms I don't feel like a wimp (anymore) for not heading over the mountains on small roads as it gets dark
Will leave as the sun rises tomorrow!
#moving #roadtrip #NewBeginning #NextChapter
Is retirement somehow bad for your brain? A recent NY Times articles might leave that impression, but the actual studies it's based on tell a different - and more nuanced - story.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-04-21-is-retirement-bad-for-your-brain-ny-times-weigh-in/
I knew I needed to be prepared for a stock market downturn sometime after I retired. But I was kind of hoping one wouldn't happen the *first* year I stopped working. . . .
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-04-13-my-first-stock-market-downturn-as-a-retiree/
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I’m in the midst of a big contrast in retirement weeks at the moment. This past week: Some fun events! (when I’m not following current events) Next week: Not so much.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-04-06-a-couple-of-contrasting-retirement-weeks/
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It felt good to work on a couple of more freelance articles while the weather was bad this winter - and then go back to my #retirement life.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-03-23-i-ve-been-freelancing-again-in-retirement/
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It sometimes seem hard to know when is the right time to retire -- until you do. I'm not sorry I retired sooner than I initially planned.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-03-09-i-m-glad-i-didn-t-follow-my-original-plan-to-retire-later/
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I didn't truly understand how hard it was to squeeze in self care while I was working full time . . . until I retired.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-03-02-the-high-cost-in-hours-of-self-maintenance/
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Hard to believe I've been retired half a year already! Some thought after the first 6 months: https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-02-02-half-a-year-of-retirement/
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There are 4 phases of retirement that “most” people move through in retirement, Dr. Riley Moynes argues in a TEDx talk viewed more than 3 million times. But I’m not sure that's quite as widespread as he claims.
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-01-26-are-there-really-4-phases-of-retirement/
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