It's been a doozy of a fall here in the Northeast. Normally, our Saturdays are jam-packed with soccer games and tournaments. But thanks to the onslaught of rain that's magically arrived every weekend like clockwork, we've had a bunch of Saturdays recently that consisted of hours cooped up at home. And when you have young-ish kids, hours at home mean countless complaints of boredom -- and lost patience on the part of parents like myself.

But it's not just my kids who have been complaining to me of boredom lately. In the course of my work, I like to talk to people about their experiences in retirement. In recent weeks, I've chatted up the parents of friends of mine, as well as older people in my community, to see how they're faring.

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