The Rookie Retiree

Are you a Rookie Retiree, or about to become one?
Is there a need for some direction and validation in your new stage of life?
Retirement took me by surprise. Writing and researching were the ways I was able to make sense of my new world.

Describe to someone who has never been in love, what it feels like when you have, at long last, found your soul mate. Describe to someone about to give birth, the first feelings that flood you when you become a parent for the first time. Describe to someone the pain of losing a loved one, when that moment is completely unexpected. Can someone accurately explain to another, what it will feel like to wake up one morning, and be retired from the full-time world of work? What will it feel like every day that first year, when just about everything familiar about your waking hours has changed?