Do I need more to do in 2026? Well, sometime over the next twelve months I have to seriously decide whether I should continue working or retire. This should be easy, right? Nope. I have already made some decisions, such as what I intend to do after I retire ( work as a volunteer transcribing hand-written documents for The National Archives ) and if I will ever self-publish for profit under my old bylines (absolutely not. When I stop working for money, I stop working .) These are non-negotiable decisions that I made for my general health, happiness and avoidance of all the unpleasantness associated with self-publishing as well as what I left behind when I stopped writing for the big NY publishers. While I am getting older by the day, so is my guy, who is twelve years older than me. He will soon be in his eighties and is starting to have some genuine issues with his cognitive and physical capabilities. Memory problems and falls are our two big problems at the moment (I'm...