The Leaders’ Board

By Ann Burnside Love You’ve been retired for a while. You’re doing well, or you’re doing less than well, but managing. Possibly you’re thinking about, or wanting, or needing to make a change to a community where your life will be more comfortable, safer, and where...

By Ann Burnside Love My friend Marjorie and I, during the same month, signed onto the waiting list for the retirement community I now live in, two and a half years before our names came up on the list for our apartments. When I got the call that a residence was...

By Ann Burnside Love • At a retirement community, someone else cleans my apartment regularly, changes my bed linen, and recycles my newspapers. (If this sounds wonderful, it is.) After certain breaks in health, I really can't do many of these things. And I'm most...

By Ann Burnside Love We’re not to call libraries “libraries” any more. They are now media centers doing much more than housing books. I know this is true truth, because two of my daughters-in-law are media center coordinators in public schools. One works in an...

By Ann Burnside Love For this week’s blog, I introduced myself to some new neighbors, and asked them why they decided to move into a senior living community like the one I call home. He says: “We had accumulated all these things together during our marriage. We were...

By Ann Burnside Love This story is about the unexpected way I moved into the beautiful retirement apartment I now call home. As a hint — although my daughter and I had planned every detail together — when the day came I never even saw the moving crew.  Yes, I was...