Tag: The Villages

Art of a thumbs up and heart

People born smack in the middle of the baby boom wave, including many of this blog’s readers, are now in their mid-60s and have retired – or, at least, they were planning to retire before the stock market crashed. Some of your favorite articles in the first quarter, based on the blog’s traffic, were about…

Images of growing stacking coins and Hand putting coin into glas

May all your dreams come true. This hope, displayed on a sign in The Villages retirement community in north central Florida, is why thousands of people flock there every year to retire. During my annual holiday trek to visit my 84-year-old mother in Orlando, my husband and I drove her to The Villages to visit…