I stopped working in my previous profession as part time psych professor/part time psychotherapist to be with my husband who was dying of cancer & so we spent as much time as possible on our boat & cruising the coast of Maine the summer before he died. I never went back to my previous profession and it has been 3 years.
Since I don't believe in "retirement" ~ I began to work on my art ~ sketching, painting, collage, fused glass and now am focused on creating in mixed media ~ The older women I have known have always been active right to the end doing what they chose to do. My grandmother lived to 101 and my maternal gm worked in her 70s and died at 84 ~ my Mom died in her 70;s but she was always busy with a part time job or just doing what she wanted to do for the first time in life.
So, Dotsie, that is where I am at ~ and plan to have a long life with my creating, my dogs, my friends, nature, and on and on ~