ABOUT ME

Regina Kessler

Leisure has always been my passion. I never really got over believing play is the best part or wanted to leave the summer of love. I majored in Recreation at Ohio State University (my Dad couldn’t believe it either), graduating with a B.S. in 1969. I ran recreation programs at Bellevue Hospital and The New York Association for the Blind, while getting my M.A. in Leisure Studies at New York University.

Then I set out to hang up my shingle as a Leisure Counselor. No one came. They were all working. That’s when I became interested in retirement. Retired people have a lot of free time. So I went to work as a leisure specialist at Retirement Advisors, a division of Hearst Business Publications. There I assisted in running seminars and writing information booklets and newsletters on successful retirement for corporate groups.

In 1991 my book Who Says Retirement Has to Be Boring? was published by Pharos Books. Recently, I suggested to my agent that we update this publication for my generation. He pointed out that everyone goes to the web for this sort of information now, thus this site.

My belief that we reach our greatest potential when doing what we want to do because we want to still holds firm. Call me a Boomer.