Retirement Time - kind of...
Major Announcement!! (drum roll please). I am formally retiring from UNC-FSU at the end of this term. After mom died I climbed off the Tenure bus and have only been part time… but still I was going to wait a year to retire - which is what I said last year. Yes, I know, neurosis has many faces and dubious lures. This winter however I watched myself running full tilt doing many things partially to my liking. The term half-assed comes to mind. Granted, being ADD is a commercial license for multi-tasking… however multiple unfinished projects kept staring me in the face. For umpteen years I had been racing to stay inches in front of the rampaging boulder that was careening down the path behind me. Habit, I suppose, kept me at that pace as life is gentler now and the need is gone. I will now have time to teach in different ways. My Sunday School class, Better Living and Wellness lectures, and even do more volunteering at schools. I will always love Children’s Theatre and w