Jan Cullinane's Bio
Jan Cullinane and Cathy Fitzgerald are the authors of The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life (Rodale). Their book has been widely acclaimed and reached the number two ranking on both Barnes&Noble.com and Amazon.com. The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal have given the book outstanding reviews.
A revised and updated second edition of The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life, will be available on July 24th. The second edition contains many new recommendations for specific places to consider for relocation, updated financial/tax/health/travel and psychology sections, and brand new anecdotes, worksheets, and references.
Jan has appeared on TV both nationally and locally, has conducted more than 40 radio, Internet, and television interviews, and has published articles for newspapers and magazines including The Suburban Press, Indianapolis Prime Times, and Living Southern Style magazine. Jan has been consulted by a number of free-lancers writing articles about retirement for newspapers and magazines as well.
Through the company they formed, Retirement Living from A to Z, Jan and Cathy conduct retirement seminars and have traveled extensively investigating places to retire and talking to prospective retirees and those who have taken the plunge. Their six years of research and travel culminated in the only guide you'll need for a successful, happy retirement.
Jan has a B.S. and M.Ed. in Science Education from the University of Maryland, and has taught extensively at the high school and college level. She presently lives in Cincinnati with her husband, has three children, and thinks the word "retirement" itself should be retired.
Jan's articles on Retirement can be seen throughout the Lifestyle Page of BOOMj.com. Jan's goal is to inform Boomers and Generation Jones on how to plan for their future while enjoying today.
You can buy Jan Cullinane's book The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life at the BOOMj Store.
10 Quotes to Live By
Looking for a few good words? Here are some quotes that deliver some excellent advice:
"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover..." - Mark Twain
"Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness." - Vernon Baker
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"Choose to live in a place where your eyes are always open to the positive possibilities." - Ralph Marston
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits, you, it is tax reform." - Russell B. Long
"You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself." - Yogi Berra
