A couple of days ago, I sent out a newsletter about new estate planning attorneys whom we have brought on in the last year or so. Unfortunately, some folks thought that meant that I, Jim Roberts, am either retiring or slowing down. That’s not the case. Not at all.
As my colleagues here know, I never plan to retire. God may have other plans, but not me.
I hope to be here full time for the next 10-20 years. My “heros” are a client and my siblings. My client worked every day until age 94, and stopped only with a diagnosis of a terminal illness that quickly sapped his strength. Another “hero” was my oldest sister, born in 1929 (over 20 years older than I am), who died this past May, just about 30 days before her 95th birthday. Her family has a wholesale floral business, with a couple of very large warehouses, and she was all over both of those every day of her life until three days before she died. Even when she suffered a broken hip, she almost immediately grabbed a walker, scooting all over those warehouses, putting up with that for a short while and then chucked it and went full speed on her own two pins from then on.
All of my siblings, except one who died of cancer decades ago, have lived into their late 80’s and beyond (except one who is “only” 84 and still as active and sharp as can be).
So count on me to be here too. For a long, long time.