Empowered Transitions

This questionnaire is designed to both aid in focusing your thoughts on the Third Quarter of your life/Retirement and to obtain any thoughts on this time, your Pre-Retirement or Retirement. The questions you are being asked to answer are open-ended; and as such, are to be considered to be as thought-provoking as you choose. With […]

Your Retirement takes quite a bit of planning and forethought. To the person who retirement is ‘not an issue’ for, retirement is usually seen as finish off a career, sit back, relax, play with the grand-kids, and generally while away your days doing a whole lot of nothing. Ask most any ‘retired’ person and you […]

What are your fears telling you? Are they reminding you of all the “bad” decisions you have made? Are they telling you how “you can’t do this or that”? When I was in high school, like most all boys then, I took courses in ‘wood shop’. I learned how to use the various wood-working machines […]

If you only change the paint on one wall of one room of your home, you are making a change! What will that change be? How will it take shape in your life? Change means you are moving, moving forward in your life and forward in those lives that surround you. Does change in your […]

Good morning everyone! We have all enjoyed having my wife and owner of Gypsy Wind Designs writing here but that is something we will all have to look elsewhere for: Gypsy Wind Designs is the new home for her writings! To find out the latest of what she is doing, whether it is stitcheries, handbags, […]

While it is true that one of my favorite things is sitting down at my beloved Janome with a piece of beautiful fabric and creating something, I really love making stitcheries. The whole process – drawing words or pictures with a water-soluble pen, sorting through my stash of floss for the perfect colors, and then […]

How many of us really just want to be mediocre? Who among us harbors dreams of being in the middle off the pack and never having the best there is possible for themselves, their children, and their loved ones? Who is it that just wanted to be forgettable? We all have dreams of bring recognized […]

What would YOU do if you are sending your last child out into the world and you have no one else to hold you where you are? I thought that it was very indicative of where a lot of both men and women are when a friend of mine recently posted on her Facebook page: […]

Until just a few months ago, my husband was an owner-operator. This meant he had a big blue hole on shiny chrome wheels that he poured money into. But that’s another story for another day. Over the years, when I felt the urge to wander around the country some, I’d pack a bag and hop […]

There once was a time when women who had reached what was known as “Middle Age” became invisible to society. Not anymore! Women in their late 40’s, 50’s, & 60’s are now major movers and shakers in every arena of society. For example; we have Hilary Clinton(Secretary of State), Sarah Palin(powerful voice within the political […]