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Retired & Free - Living in Costa Rica

Tam D Matthews

It's never too late!

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I’ve been reading a lot of posts lately about how terrible and lonely it is to get older. Retirement as a long, slow waiting room. Days that blur together. Nobody calls. Nothing matters.

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The Weight of Dreams

Thursday was an emotional day, though it didn’t begin that way.

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I didn’t set out to write a novel when I moved to Costa Rica. My plan was much smaller: write and publish children’s plays.

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A Confession

I owe you an apology. I’ve been phoning it in lately, and I’m not entirely sure when that started. Somewhere around the point where I noticed that most “successful” Substacks are just newsletters about how to run a successful Substack, I go...

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Never Fly to Costa Rica Without a Return Ticket

Let me start with the good news: nobody was arrested, nobody was harmed, and Craig is currently on our couch, fully charged, enjoying life in San Juanillo.

Now for the rest.

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