Linda Grady

Comments:

• And you will undoubtedly find plenty more that you DO like and with whom you will enjoy common interests, even just chatting over bagels and coffee!

  Post: What Is Retirement?

  Link to comment from February 1, 2023

• No doubt in my mind, David, that you will continue to enjoy a wonderful “retirement.” I’ve kept my nursing license active for the seven years since I quit daily employment, and only needed it for one brief paid stint. I recently became co-chair of a local nonprofit serving children. I think it will be fun and worthwhile. Thanks for your words.

  Post: What Is Retirement?

  Link to comment from February 1, 2023

• What a wonderful, touching story, Marjorie, with so many lessons that are always relevant. Though I grew up in Queens, your Manhattan references (about working in “The City”) are so familiar from my summer and early working years as a secretary, before going to nursing school in my 30’s. Thanks so much!

  Post: An American Story

  Link to comment from January 25, 2023

• I would love to attend a conference as described. It would be a fun adventure for my grandson as well. I hope it happens.

  Post: A Difficult Year

  Link to comment from January 7, 2023

• Beautiful and poignant way to start my day here in NE PA. There was a family farmhouse where my mom grew up and we were blessed to also live there with our kids for a few years. We sold off lots and eventually the house. Now, another young family lives there. I love seeing their play equipment when I occasionally drive by. Perhaps you will be so fortunate. Thanks for sharing.

  Post: This Empty House

  Link to comment from January 4, 2023

• Thanks and Merry Christmas to you, Jonathan, and to all your commenters and writers, here today and anytime. HD is a bright spot in my life, especially on Saturday. I’m looking forward to seeing an article by Sam Pittsburgh, and to reading the circus article that I missed!😊😉🎄

  Post: Writ Large

  Link to comment from December 24, 2022

• Thanks, Brian. What a familiar story that bears retelling! My parents were in your shoes many years ago, caring for my mom’s childless great-aunt as she declined. More recently, my own childless aunt was cared for by her much younger brother. My sister’s only niece and nephews are my three adult children, who will care for her when the day comes. Two are very close to her and will likely share the task. As I raise my teen grandson, I will prepare him for these eventual duties for my own daughter, who will also not have children. That’s what families do. It’s blessing that your aunt has you, your brother and your sister-in-law. When someone has been so competent and independent, their decline can come as a shock, as I remember it did to my parents. Glad your aunt had the legal framework set up.

  Post: Talk While You Can

  Link to comment from December 21, 2022

• Caring for a loved one, in your case, your wife, and in mine, my teenage grandson, definitely adds to the anxiety of preparing your family for your own possible death or disability. I hear you on this topic, Richard! When I lost my husband in the early days of Covid and only a few months after a grandson came to live with us, I panicked. I knew we had adequate resources but could I access them? Fortunately, I had asked my husband about two years earlier to prepare a cheat sheet about our financial instruments and, separately, passwords. He never trusted storing things anywhere except on the hard drive of out laptop, not in the cloud. But that cheat sheet, which he had printed out, guided me to update and expand it so it now resembles your Big Book. I’ve given it to my adult children along with all the passwords so they can find everything easily if I become disabled or die. We also have a plan for the care of my grandson (his parents live overseas where travel is extremely restricted at this time). Fortunately, I remain in good health, but I am, like you, relieved that, I have things in good order. Still need to fine tune my will, but with beneficiaries on all my financial instruments, I don’t worry too much. I’ve also reduced what I called my husband’s various “buckets”: insurance policies, bank accounts, credit cards and investment accounts, from 27 to “only” 20-22!

  Post: Answers to Everything

  Link to comment from November 5, 2022

• Or Atlas Obscura. Check out their website if you’re not familiar. You can also travel virtually with them 😊, as you can with Road Scholar. Oh wait, I forgot this is an INVESTMENT advice column (Invest in experiences, I say, at home or awa).

  Post: Trip of a Lifetime

  Link to comment from October 29, 2022

• OMG! You knew the value of experiences over things long before that became the current parenting mantra. What an amazing time for your son and wise to have done it before the angst of the teen years hit 😉

  Post: Trip of a Lifetime

  Link to comment from October 29, 2022