Retirement - An opportunity!

(This is my maiden voyage in the blogosphere.  It is my intention to use the blog to comment on educational issues, share personal information, and give readers glimpses of my strange sense of humor.  I have been a Tweep for 2 years "m4flynn".)

"No", was essentially the message to the school board member in the e-mail.  I picked up the phone, called IT, and said, "I am done.  Shut down my e-mail account."

That was at 4:30 p.m. on June 10, 2011, my last day of work as a Superintendent/District Administrator. I shut everything down and, having packed 14 years of accumulation previously, turned off the lights and left.

Now what?

Well, it has been a 4G summer - grandchildren, golf, God, and grass (lawn).  It has also been a summer of opportunity.  I am working to grow into a larger position at an esteemed, small Milwaukee-area university.  I have been spending more time babysitting our 18 month old grandson. I am going to the South Sudan next week on a short-term missions trip through our church.  (The South Sudan was granted independence in early July, 2011 and my wife and I will be gone for 18 days.)  In November, I will begin to volunteer in the classrooms of 4 of my grandchildren - 4K, 2nd, 2nd, and 4th grade.

I do not have enough time to do all I want to do.  Cool.

Stand?  Yes, stand.
"Stand,
n the end you will be you.
One that's done all the things you set out to do.
Stand."
-Sly and the Family Stone