I entered a contest “How I Survived 2020” and while I didn’t win a cash prize, I feel like I won anyway. They selected several entries to put in a book and mine was one of them. The publisher went out of business so I posted my essay on Substack and you can find it here.
My essay My Transition to Retirement was published in April 2023 in the Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE), the University of Minnesota’s Retiree Association’s publishing arm. The link to my essay is co-mingled with other authors’ essays so please click on the link to the PDF and press page down to find my essay.
Another of my essays about retirement, How Retiring to Los Angeles was in the Stars, was published in the Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE) in April 2025.
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