Flight of Fantasy

A woman in a chevron-striped dress and a man in a maroon shirt stand beside a vintage green biplane, and he holds a wooden propeller.

Karen DeBord and Jack Phillips are living their own personal dream at Smith Mountain Lake in their golden years.

Still Collecting Memories in Retirement

Smiling older man and woman hold a framed Wonder Woman for President comic cover among shelved collectibles.

Fred and Carolyn Eichelman taught school for four decades each and discovered science fiction was a good teaching tool. They’re still collecting evidence.

Not Exactly a Trainwreck

Two smiling older adults stand before a weathered wooden cabin with a deck in a leafy forest.

This Lynchburg couple has found a contentment in retirement, even though it doesn’t remotely resemble what they had so carefully planned.

Retirement: What Now?

Yellow label reading "NEXT STEPS" above large green letters reading "WHAT NOW?

That’s the question retirees often ask after they have the gold watch tucked away. Here are some thoughtful and useful answers.

All You Need Is More Money and…

Five-panel collage of smiling adults posing indoors and outdoors, including a couple by a red wall and a woman at a piano.

Getting ready for retirement requires us to enter the planning mode, to accumulate more money than we thought we’d need and to adjust in a lot of different ways.

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