Daily writing promptDo you need time?View all responses Time moves on, regardless of the need for more time by all of us. Everyone has experienced days when you wish you had more time to complete a project ot tell someone you loved them. As I near my seventy-fourth birthday, I often wonder whether I would... Continue Reading →
Retirement is a Career Move!
Daily writing promptWhat is your career plan?View all responses I finally retired for good last year. I wondered if my usefulness was depleted. But as I just completed a new Master's degree in Religious Studies this week, I realize that in retiring, I opened new doors that will bring new beginnings. So, retirement is not... Continue Reading →
Have a Plan for the Emotional Losses of Retirement
Daily writing promptDescribe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.View all responses Don't retire without a plan for your time and sense of purpose. That is the advice I would give anyone thinking of retiring. Possibly, one would think that having one's time mapped out is exactly why one retires. But,... Continue Reading →
Unretired and Happy!
Today, I entered a classroom as the instructor for the first time in three years. I was nervous, and my stomach churned and made embarrassing noises, but it was okay. It felt like coming home again. I smiled and had the students laughing. Humor is so important when you are talking about deep subjects in... Continue Reading →
The Best Job Ever Was Being a Mother: FDDA
My crew. Written for Fandango's Dog Days of August Challenge of "your best job ever." I was told when I was age 16 that I would never have children of my own, the result of surgery needed after being hit by a boyfriend and landing and bouncing off the hood of a car. So, I... Continue Reading →
Not the Retirement I Planned to Enjoy, But Blessed
I thought that by now I would be on the beach, Not worried about lectures I had to teach. Admittedly, I had no way to predict That the whole world would become sick, And that beloved Europe would be out of my reach. The inevitable will happen, you can be sure, And we learn that... Continue Reading →
Last Grades In: Time to Blog Again!
I am unemployed again! I am not fully happy about it, but I am thankful that I had the opportuntiy to ply my craft once again. I had a great last class of students online who really engaged with the course content, nearly making me change my mind about retiring again. But, in the present... Continue Reading →
To New Starts in Life: Retiring Again!
I thought going back to work would be so idyllic. Then the virus came, and I couldn't leave my home. No excursions meant that my house became my workplace, And I had went back to teaching to avoid always being alone. No longer could I glide between the separate parts of my life, Unable to... Continue Reading →
More Than Just Dreaming: Weekend Writing Prompt
Retirement seems to be quite decadent to those Who are still busy people running to and fro. But I can assure you that I don't just sit around, Spending time wool-gathering about faraway places to go. Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt from Sammiscibbles, February 2, 2019. Write poem or prose in exactly 36 words... Continue Reading →
Have I Finished My Course?
Every day I feel as though I am leaving something undone that I was born to do, a task that only I am qualified and equipped to do. Morning slips into afternoon, and I have not accomplished anything of value, at least that is how I feel. Then, night is upon us, and all that... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 