Aloha and Fond Greetings,
After 41 years of teaching in many places, I'm in my second year of retirement and am working out my new relationship with time.  Spreading that time since from my tiny island of Lana'i to Honolulu, Tucson, upstate NY, have spent more of it "off island" than on, so I don't really know where I stand with time yet.  Some surprises since that big leap is that I truly know how to be lazy and sleep in most days if there is nothing special to get up for.  Such a contrast over those hectic decades of being a teacher and child raising where I'd normally be up between five and six.  I have adjusted very well to not having to do that.  I'm surprised by it.  I did go back to work part time at my former school and just upped and quit that right after the first quarter of the current school year.  I'm just so done with education.  That surprises me also.  My career has been very good to me, exceedingly rewarding though exhausting on many levels through out, more so recently with NCLB and the current testing frenzy, but I have loved my students; they've brought me much joy and taught me so much.  Very satisfying career.  So it perplexes  me somewhat  how done I am with it.  And so on to things I didn't have (much) time for like my family scattered across the country, including my mother who is 95. I get to spend bigger chunks of time with them  now and that's what I've been doing.  Because I lived and taught in many places prior to teaching on Lana'i, places like New York, New Jersey, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, the island of Oahu, then Florida, and finally Lana'i which gave me 17 years of consistency in one place and a retirement, though paltry compared to others who spend that much time in their career,  for which I am truly grateful.  Going out on a limb and way out of my learning curve, I'm in the midst of schooling/training for e-commerce.  This is so out of my comfort zone.  I feel like one of my ELL students having to master basic vocabulary in a second language and frightened of appearing stupid and not being quick enough.  However, other people earn a lot of money doing this and so why can't I?  Well, I can.  So that's where I am now.  How nice is this?  Well, I'm staying with my daughter in Tucson for four months.  I get to hang with her and my grandson.  I can learn wherever I am.  Mahalo technology. You help make the world one.