After An Educator's Journey

Out of the classroom & into the universe

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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
I taught second, third and fourth graders. Teaching was my passion and joy for 30 years. And it didn’t hurt that they called me “mom” sometimes.

Category: Retirement Life

  • A Wish for Our Rising First Grader

    Pictured from Left to Right: Me, Z with her Pépère, and me again Our granddaughter turns six in the next week and a half. It often seems as if we were meeting her for the first time just a few months ago, not getting ready to celebrate her 6th birthday. The awareness of the passage…

  • Losing it in Montréal: Aging travel

    I heard a new term yesterday and I really wanted to write about that, but Adrien spoke to me and in that split-second, the word was wiped from my brain. As I get older, the act of immediately forgetting something I’d like to remember annoys me. It also terrifies me for obvious reasons. Trying to…

  • From No-Go to Slow-Go

    I once heard a description of the stages of travel in retirement as “go-go”, “slow-go” and “no-go”. When I first retired, I know I had many thoughts of traveling domestically and internationally with the added bonus that, as a retiree, I would no longer be bound by the school calendar. Or high travel season prices.…