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    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement: A Guide for Staying at Home
    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement: A Guide for Staying at Home
    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement: A Guide for Staying at Home
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    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement: A Guide for Staying at Home

    By Nancy Robison

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    Advice Only a Loving Wife Can Give

    Destined to become the perfect retirement gift, Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement is filled with wisdom, warmth, and gentle advice from a wife to her husband.

    This unique book covers all the details concerning retirement, offering tongue-in-cheek admonitions and humorous suggestions, including how to:

    create a new daily routine
    adjust to your wife's established routine
    be helpful (and not a hindrance) around the house
    choose hobbies and rewarding activities to enrich your new life, plus lots more!

    As much a guide as a collection of heartfelt lessons, this instant classic is a must-have for any retiree.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTouchstone
    Release dateJun 15, 2010
    ISBN9781451603200
    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement: A Guide for Staying at Home
    Author

    Nancy Robison

    Nancy Robison is the author of 70 books and over 900 short stories and articles for newspapers and magazines, and mostly for young readers. Her picture book, Ten Tall Soldiers was made into a play and produced in the Midwest; and her book, UFO Kidnap was voted children’s favorite.  She is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times Reading by 9 Program and Kidspace for The Christian Science Monitor. Before becoming a writer, she was a model, dancer and actress on television and motion pictures, as well as appearing in three operas; all of which have given her fuel for writing stories.  Combining her desires and talents, she wrote, produced and hosted a cablevision show called, Author to Author, where she interviewed writers, editors, publishers, librarians and readers. Her books have won awards, been made into plays, reprinted in other languages and made into e-books.   She has been a volunteer docent at the Los Angeles Music Center and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and also for The Performing Arts Center in Orange County, California.  Along with her husband, Robert (of 56 years), she has been active in community affairs working for The Friends of the Library, the Senior Center Garden Club and Sunday school teacher. Besides writing, Nancy enjoys photography and has photographed numerous books and photo greeting cards.  Oil painting, tennis and line dancing are her favorite activities. She is currently working on picture and chapter books for children.

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      A fun and helpful book on retiring. Not same old financial planning stuff from most retirement books. I recommend!!

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    Dear Hubby, About Your Retirement - Nancy Robison

    Dear Hubby,

    About Your Retirement

    A Guide for Staying at Home

    NANCY ROBISON

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    ISBN 0-684-85196-2

    eISBN: 978-1-451-60320-0

    Many thanks to my friends for

    your interest, encouragement, and

    input for this book. Requests have

    come from wives whose husbands

    are about to retire, as well as from

    those who have just retired,

    to include helpful information

    on this transition in their lives.

    I hope this answers some

    of your questions.

    DEAR HUBBY,

    ABOUT YOUR RETIREMENT

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    I’ve missed your company over these past many years. While we both had careers and were raising a family, we hardly had time for each other. When we got hitched—if you can remember back that far—we were the best of friends. Each day, I looked forward to you coming home in the evenings and spending the few precious hours together before sleep time, then it was up at the crack of dawn and another day started all over again. Now we can pick up again where we left off before those busy, busy days. Just one of the perks will be traveling off-season and missing the crowds, as well as

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