What I Didn't Know About Retirement
What I Didn’t Know About Retirement Theology in the Trenches By Kathleen Kjolhaug The conversation wasn’t really one at all. Rather, it was a single question posed. “Why do you read with your lips, whispering the words each time you read?” Fair enough it was to ask, but my reply was a surprise even to me. “I didn’t know I did!” Although I’ve been “retired” for a few years now, I’ve been patiently waiting for my husband to catch up in hopes we’d ride off into the sunset alongside one another during this quieter phase of our lives. Apparently, I wasn’t being very quiet. Since we’ve moved, we thought it might be fun to talk, read, sit, and gear down while enjoying the peacefulness of life where we now live. Thus, technology has been kept to a minimal. And it’s been working quite well—at least the gearing down part because every time I look over at him in the evenings as we pine away the hours in the pines, his head is tilted back, his eyes are closed and the noises comin
