Labor of love

Here we are again at the end of summer, Labor Day weekend, and for many people this marks the beginning of another school year. While I don’t plan to return to the classroom as a teacher, I’m celebrating my current classroom called Never Stop Learning.

What about this life called retirement? Has it brought you contentment, or does boredom too often knock on the window?

On a scrap of paper in my office is a quote from Milton Glaser, co-founder of New York Magazine, that reads, “One of the great lies of American culture is that at a certain age in your life, 65, you are ready to go to Florida and stare out the window. Where in the world did this idea come from?”