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Inspiring Life of the Month: DeeAnn
Welcome to Inspiring Life of the Month – a new blog series from FAR that celebrates borrowers unlocking extraordinary lives in retirement. Each month, we’ll dive deep within our great community and profile the lives, careers, and unique adventures of inspiring borrowers that are living-out retirement to the fullest. This...
Old Dogs, “New Tricks”
My wife and I were perusing Netflix and Amazon Prime for something to watch when we came across “New Tricks” on Amazon. The show, which aired on BBC (and later on public broadcasting in the US) is about three retired male policemen who are older adults, and their younger boss,...
Share How You’ve Rediscovered Your Home This Year and Win $250!
We've spent a lot of time in our homes over the last ten or eleven months.  And, over the course of the last many months, we’ve read a lot of stories about the negative impacts for those shuttered inside their homes.  So, we thought about creating an idea that could...
The Old Man on a Climber
I've been lucky in that the pandemic hasn't been totally disruptive for me. It's not been great, but I know it could be a whole lot worse. Nothing terrible has happened.  One of the worst things, though, (and this is minor in the overall) is that I no longer go...
Reimagine Your Retirement Through Empowerment
Retirement should be a time in your life when you feel empowered to live how you want to. But, as retirement is associated with aging and growing older, some have negative perceptions around it. At the end of the day, the only thing we can control are our own attitudes...
What is Retirement, Anyway?? Can I have it My Way?
I come from what my mother called "good New England stock" but never got any siblings, so I have no sib experience to draw on for what most consider learning how to live with others - it has made me pretty independent, and very self-reliant, which is certainly standing me...
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