Younger people often wonder what seniors do with all that spare time they have in their retirement years.

I’ll be glad to elucidate that for all of you enquiring minds. Here is what I did on a recent typical day. On that day, I:

• shoveled snow

• spread sand

• complained to a manager

• hung a blind

• repaired a broken chair

• bandaged a cut arm

• hunted a bear

• checked my emails, deleted most of them as spam, and responded to some of the others

• filled out two forms for the government, sent them in electronically, and printed the confirmation pages

• downloaded two other government forms and printed them

• picked up the mail

• filed two reports that came in the mail

• prepared a Bible study for a care group meeting

• worked on writing a devotional meditation

• started an online discussion

• offered detailed advice to an author about the best options for publishing his book

• deleted files

• cleaned a cat box

• researched the impact of proposed government tariffs on the book publishing industry

• played hockey

• watched a few minutes of a hockey game on TV

• consoled a grandchild

• contacted an old friend a few thousand miles away

• jotted down a few lines of dialogue for a murder mystery I am writing

• did very little actual work

• wrote this blog. Okay, it’s not One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. But I’m not Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. And this blog is shorter—and you read it all the way through to the end.