"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver

We work only seven hours a day in the summer. I'm loving it. Right now, the extra five hours are going into going through my stuff, but everything that I get rid of is stuff that I won't have to deal with in a move later. And I am actually getting rid of a lot of stuff.

And I'm thinking about what I would do during retirement. My spontaneous reaction is what would I DO with myself, so I'm thinking about what I would do with myself. I'm working on a list of things to do in retirement or to learn before I retire.

Things to learn before retirement:

• Relearn how to ride a bike. I'd like to spend time on biking (and hiking) trails.


• How to play pool? That's something that I've wanted to learn since I was a kid. The woman with whom I'm doing the presentation later this month is a pool player. Maybe I should hire her to teach me.


• Learn to play golf? I've been interested in that since high school. But there's always miniature golf :)


• Improve my photography skills


• Take singing lessons

Things to learn during retirement:

• Audit online classes


• Audit university classes?


• Guitar and piano (if not sooner)


• Foreign languages

Other things to do:

• Write regularly


• Volunteer


• Container garden


• Travel as much as I can afford

It's a start. I have time to think about this because I want to retire at 70 to max out Social Security. And I might look for part-time work after that (preferably at home).