How Should you Spend your Retirement? DAY TWO

Written By Neil Offen

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Continuing education is not just important for your cognitive health and keeping your mind sharp; it’s also an opportunity to meet other like-minded people with curious minds even if some people are fifty years younger and might have purple hair and a few have no hair at all.

For instance, go take a calculus class at a local university or community college near you. You will not understand a single word spoken by the instructor, of course, but you can be assured that none of your younger classmates will either because, hey, it’s calculus. However, they are likely to take you under their wing and anoint you as their mascot and ask you to pledge Beta Kappa Feta, one of the cheesiest fraternities.

Neil Offen

Neil Offen, one of the editors of this site, is the author of Building a Better Boomer, a hilarious guide to how baby boomers can better see, hear, exercise, eat, sleep and retire better. He has been a humor columnist for four decades and on two continents. A longtime journalist, he’s also been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, written a nationally syndicated funny comic strip and been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he is, as well, the man behind several critically acclaimed supermarket shopping lists. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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How should you spend your retirement? DAY ONE