Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. 1 Thinking About Retirement -- One More Stretch of the Road -- The Old Brown Bag and the Used Tinfoil : Lessons from My Mother about Work and Retirement -- Exploring the No-Woman's Land of Old Age; or, How May Sarton's Counterstory Prepare Me for Retirement -- Clearing a Path to Retirement: Excerpts from a Journal -- Retiring into Intensity, Experiencing "Deep Play" -- On My Own Terms -- Cut Me Some Slack: Reflections on the Eve of Retirement -- Making a Difference -- Rethinking Ambition: Women on the Edge of Retiring -- Circling the Wagons: A Guide to Lesbian Retirement -- Baby Boom Women: The Generation of Firsts -- Pt. 2 Stages Of Retirement -- Notes from the First Year -- Time to Look Back: My Family and the Movement -- Every Day a Sunday? Reflections on a First Year of Retirement -- Cheating a Self in Context -- "The Last of Life for Which the First Was Made" -- Afterthoughts -- A Mennonite Retirement: From Work Projects to Play Projects -- Rewriting the Books: Onward in Retirement -- Doc Finds Happiness in Arts Community -- Does an Activist Ever Retire? -- Discovering What Matters: A Focus Group on Retirement -- Still in Circulation: A Librarian Retires -- Harvesting the Threads of Commitment -- Retirement without Regrets -- Carpe Diem/Follow Your Passion -- Pt. 3 Never Retire -- Retirement - The Final Question Mark? -- Progressions -- Social Insecurity: A Cautionary Tale -- Retirement: From Rags to Rags --Change of Life -- Never Retire -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors