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Bobby Erdrich talks about Acting in Retirement. You can listen to the show at http://rockyourretirement.libsyn.com/acting-in-retirement-episode-019\nHave you ever thought about acting in retirement?\nBobby Erdrich and I met at The Hearing Experience\u2019s symposium, and I was very impressed with how outgoing and friendly she was.\xa0 She was born in New York in 1925 and started acting when she was four years old.\xa0 She was \u201cdiscovered\u201d on a subway.\xa0Ever since then she\u2019s been acting, writing, directing and producing, and is acting in retirement in her one woman show.\nShe loves her Senior Apartment at Woodland Village and said that there is so much to do there that no one could ever be bored if they wanted to get out and meet people.\xa0 She loves putting on shows and displaying her acting in retirement skills at the Woodland Village.\nSOCIAL AND FAMILY\nWhen her husband retired as a firefighter, they moved to Oregon and started a farm raising sheep.\xa0 She learned to buck hay, birth babies and shovel, well, you know\u2026.\xa0 They lived on the farm for 20 years before his back made it impossible to work there. They lived in Washington State, where her husband passed away. About 9 years later, she finally settled in the San Diego area.\nShe doesn\u2019t believe in following her children when they move;She says that they can come visit her where she lives!\nOne of the most interesting things that I found about Bobbie is that she does not have a computer, nor does she have a smart phone.\xa0 If she wants to listen to the interview, she\u2019s going to need to go to a Senior Center (we did the interview at the San Marcos Senior Center) or listen to it on one of her children\u2019s smartphones\nHEALTH\nShe does have a love interest, whom she met after she moved to the community, so it goes to show that one can find love at any age!\nVOLUNTEER work-honing her Acting in Retirement Skills\n\nShe was a mentor at a grade school in Washington State where she told stories about Hinkle and Pinkle\u2019s Rainbow Trip among other stories that she made up for them.\xa0 The children loved her for her stories and sense of humor.\nSomething people should know before they retire:\nDon\u2019t take things too seriously.\xa0 Greet each new day as something exciting and have lots of laughter.\nHow to get \u201cunstuck\u201d in your retirement:\nIt was difficult for Bobby to come up with something because she\u2019s having such a great retirement.\xa0 However, I asked her to put her acting skills to work, and she said that if she was stuck in her retirement, she would try to find some people who were not stuck, and do what they do.\nBobby will be appearing in a one-woman play called \u201cMadam, she\u2019s an off key\u201d on May 31st at Woodland Village.\xa0 For more information on the play and showing dates, you can contact Woodland Village at 760-975-0000.\nhttp://traffic.libsyn.com/rockyourretirement/R_Bobbie_Erdrick_060422_IFinal.mp3