Thanks. What do GE and GD mean? ETA from post below: GE = greatest eclipse GD = greatest duration

We were at Saluki Stadium! Dang. I would have loved to meet you.

I flew to Atlanta then drove 6.5hrs with my brother and sister to southern IL. Glad I got to experience this. The weather was perfect.

I used primal pit paste (unscented) for a couple of years. It was available at our local health food store. Not sure I would have mail ordered it. I liked it but I wear a lot of tank tops and noticed it was staining the armpits of the tank tops. I imagine that was from the coconut oil.

I remember her talking about the skills she picked up over the years that helped her to work with the severely mentally ill. I found it fascinating. Kind of like it was all in divine order. I think I remember she passed away. So sad.

Me too!

I think it's been about 20 years for me. I was Sue in St Pete back then. I rarely checked the chat board during our hs'ing years. Now, I rarely check any other board. I have no other social media account. The K-8 board, the Middle School board, the High School, Board, the College Board all helped me through. One boardie tutored ds in writing one year. 3 boardies critiqued my ds' high school transcript. I think I've only met 3 boardies IRL: one from Tampa, one from Colorado, and one from Canada. I am grateful for SWB. My heroine! Anyone remember vegsource?

This is my 11th year volunteering with VITA - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. One of the locations I volunteer at is run my a retired military site coordinator and several of the volunteers are military. VITA typically has an income cap (79,000 this year) but our site does not have a cap for active/retired military. There is another site on the military base I believe. You can lookup VITA sites here.

wrt work: what do other people/want expect from you? I can't help you with your values and desires. That is something you need to determine for yourself. I can tell you that, for me, I never have had any desire for full-time employment. Pre-child it was okay as a young professional. But there is so much more to life. There always seems to be pressure for more. At least where I have worked in corporate america. Dh, while always gainfully employed until retirement at 69yo, never made half of what I could make full-time. So, I have always had to work. Fortunately, I was able to work 20hrs/wk with family health benefits for 12 years after ds was born. Then, I had to work 30hrs/wk for family health benefits. Then I was persuaded to take full-time pay for 30hrs/wk. I kind of regret that because I didn't feel right about it. A little over a year ago, I resigned because I wanted to work 20hrs/wk and get health benefits and that wasn't an option at the company. 2 days later, I was offered (same company) 20hrs/wk with health benefits. I say my age is Medicare minus 2. Working until 65 can be a slog. And I mostly like my job. I like work-life balance even better.

I sometimes say that I grew up in a large family where our favorite form of communication was ridicule. I am loathe to put myself into a situation where I could be ridiculed. There are 2 activities that I might like to participate in that I cannot make myself participate in because I am so self-conscious and feel foolish and embarrassed. One is zumba. One is dancing (not sure how you call it - free style dancing?) I'm not asking for advice on how to overcome my inhibitions. I have some ideas. I want to be inspired that it is possible to overcome an inhibition by examples of others who have overcome their inhibitions. If you have overcome an inhibition and are willing to share, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks in advance.

This. I volunteer and we use TaxSlayer. There is a checkbox in the basic information/personal information, near the name, ss#, dob, that says they are a dependent.

For a while, I volunteered at a library that was a combination of city and community college library. After they got to know me, they always notified me when jobs were available. I work as a programmer and didn't need library $$, but a lady in my church followed my footsteps and was hired on after a short time. My gay neighbor retired after working as a (college?) librarian in OH. He says libraries are very accepting places. A gay man in our church has worked as a children's librarian forever. I'm in FL fwiw, home of the anti-woke guv. Ugh.

I helped a friend sign up for SS a year or so ago. She was married for >10yrs but divorced. Her ex-dh died. Her full retirement age was 66yo. She waited until 67.5yo to apply mostly because she dithered about finding marriage/divorce papers. I thought she would get 50% of his SS but she got 100%. We discovered that she could have gotten 100% of his SS starting at 66yo (her full retirement age). She lost a year of SS. They did give her 1/2 year back pay.

We live in a 55+ community. Dh is 72 and retired 3+ years ago. He plays softball, lots of pickleball, does pottery, shares a garden plot, volunteers 1 morning a week, is on our COA board, and will likely be the next pottery club president. When dh worked, all he ever did was ride his bike and watch sports on TV. I love that he is so active now. I'm working part-time and mostly do fitness classes. I volunteer as a tax preparer during the season, tutor a fitness instructor returning to college in math, and volunteer as a cake baker for mostly kids in foster care. Together, we volunteer as ushers 2x a month at the big live theater 30min away. When I retire, I would like to learn some of the games (euchre, rummicube, bridge, poker, hand/foot, majong) played around here or maybe try some of the paper crafts or sewing/quilting. But what do you do with the "stuff" you make? We are awash in pottery already. I'd like to invite friends over for tea and conversation more often.

I work part-time now. They know I have one foot out the door and they don't want me to leave. I am learning to be very passive aggressive. I get emails about stupid training. Delete. Eventually they email my boss who forwards them to me with a request to do the training. Delete. Invitations to company wide or department wide meetings. Delete. Go ahead and fire me. Then I won't have to decide when I go. Just had a birthday. I turned Medicare - 2.