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Enjoy Retired Life

Welcome!  My name is James Conner, and I am very happy that you stopped by for a visit.  I created this website because I absolutely love being retired.  All the things I dreamed of doing I can now do.  I can learn about all the things that have interested me, and I can go anywhere I want to go.  Sadly, I learned that is not true for everyone.  It amazes me when I hear someone say that they are bored in retirement.  I feel the need to explore the reasons that could possibly be true for anyone.  Retirement is a dream come true for me, and I think that should be true for everyone.  This website is my little effort to make sure that it is.  It's like when stops you on the street and asks for directions.  You don't ignore them; you try to help them out.  I hope that's what this website does.  I hope it helps you to Enjoy Retired Life to the fullest.

The best part of retirement is spending time with my wife Cathy who thoroughly enjoys retirement as well.  A retired schoolteacher, she enjoyed her work immensely.  But, as she will quickly tell you, retirement is even better.

I worked for Corporate America for forty years and hated every minute of it, so retirement is an escape from meetings, conference calls and projects that never seemed to end.  I couldn't wait to get out of there and it still saddens me when I meet someone who doesn't enjoy their retirement.  This website was created in an attempt to try to correct that one person at a time.  There are just too many things to do and places to see to not enjoy this time of your life.

We have been able to see some amazing places.  The picture above was taken in Venice and was a Retirement Trip that was truly memorable, and one would we would do again in a minute except for the fact that there are so many other places to see.

If you look around, you'll get a little bit of an idea of all the things we like to do and there are even some suggestions on how to customize your own retirement in a way that can be truly exciting no matter what your budget.  If there are questions that you have about anything you read, please fill in the form on this page and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  If you're wondering if this is something that you might enjoy doing, I can truthfully say that creating this website has given me endless amounts of pleasure and challenges that I enjoy solving.

In the spirit of full disclosure, there are recommendations contained within these pages that I will earn a commission from.  I don't apologize for that because any of the recommendations made are products or services I believe in.  I even tell you about ways that will enable you to do the same thing.

One additional note is on some of the wording that you will see here.  I alternate from "I" to "we" frequently but don't read anything into that.  My wife and I have been happily married for over fifty years so everything we do is a group effort in some way.

Again, thank you very much for visiting!  I hope this site helps you add more fun to your retirement because life is too short to not fully enjoy retirement.  We live in a beautiful world with so many things to see and do.  It's time to do it!  It's time to Enjoy Retired Life!

Other sites that you may find interesting

Our children, Tracy and Tom, are mentioned throughout this website and they have become wonderful people who enjoy many of the same activities that we speak about throughout these pages.  In fact, our daughter is a talented performer and music teacher who has her own website with some entertaining clips from some of her roles in local theater. You can see that site by clicking here.