This is what an actual Tuesday looks like for me now, two months into retirement. Morning I don’t get up as early as I did when I was in the 9 to 5. When I was working, I would get up around 6 AM and leave the house around 6:30 AM. That has slipped a…

Everyone talks about retirement like it’s the finish line. Nobody really tells you what the first thirty days really feel like. So here is how mine went — the good, the weird, and the stuff that genuinely caught me off guard. The first week The first week I approached Monday morning as I did for…

Mike here — welcome to the first post of Life After 59½. About a month ago, I retired from my IT career. Not at sixty. Not at sixty-five. At fifty-nine and a half. If you already know what that number means, you are aware of it’s significance. If you don’t, that’s exactly what this post…