Not exactly a genealogy post, but family history of a kind, I guess, for future readers -- As of today, I am officially 100% retired. For the past two years, I've been in a kind of limbo -- retired as far as the State of California was concerned, but still eligible to go back and teach two classes each spring, for five years. Almost no one makes it to the five-year mark -- I only made two. In the end, I think it was the commute (75 miles each way) that finally got me, that and not wanting to work so hard any more, and also that I wanted to go while I was still at the top of my game, and I could see that beginning to slip a little each year (forgetting students' names, not being able to find the right word any more, that kind of thing). I didn't want to become that ancient relic that students roll their eyes at, an old fuddy-duddy completely out of touch with whatever got them excited about education. I spent my career as an English professor, something I'd ...
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