Ralph Carlson Blog

To date the blog has reflected my thinking and efforts to create what I call an outrageous retirement lifestyle.  Outrageous will certainly be different for different people and some will not want to be outrageous at all.  I don’t think that one-size fits all and I know that my answers will not satisfy everybody.  My goal is to provide a place to exchange information about retirement not to pontificate because I am definitely not an expert.  I am a pilgrim looking for the path to enlightenment- or at least a satisfying close to my life.

I can take this blog in many directions but I am limited by my experience and thinking.  I don’t know what I don’t know.  But I think that you do know some of the things I don’t know just as I hope that I know a few of the things that you don’t know.  It’s what I don’t know that hurts me the most.  To overcome that limitation I propose to ask my readers some questions from time to time.  I would like to learn more about the questions that you are asking about your retirement journey.

This polling tool is rather blunt and I don’t have much polling experience so I ask for your help in making this work.  First, please leave comments when the poll doesn’t get at what you really think.  Second if I miss asking the right question please tell me about it either in an email or a comment.

If this blog stays focused on my retirement adventure, everybody is going to get bored.  If I learn more about what your retirement adventure is, I get new ideas and I can share them. So become an active participant. Start by answering the poll question in the sidebar just to give me an ideas about the retirement status of my readers.  Then answer the questions below.  I am looking forward to having you as part of my pilgrimage.

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Thanks for your help.