Celebrating Retirement: The grand theme of retirement is time, and it seems to evoke two distinct responses: An empty glass with too many hours, days, weeks, months, and years to fill; or, a full glass from which to savor the many things that one wished to do and had to put aside before. After more than twenty years, there are still too few hours in the day, my criterion for success. Continued below ...
Includes writings for poetry groups
Includes recipes, wine and wild mushrooms
Recent changes
November 2024
Updated courses taught in lifelong learning programs: Lifelong Learning Courses
August 2024
Entered more poems written while part of some poetry writing groups: Verse and Prose
November-December 2023
Fixed links to Photo Albums, and am re-arranging the Photography pages: Photography
Occasional site conversion and restructuring continues because of Google Sites Migration. I'm still updating Ends and Odds page with items from my previous website versions. Also combining webpages which have little or no site conversion under a page called (unsurprisingly "Under Construction").
... A five-month trial run of retirement after one of those high-tech company downsizings confirmed my expectation that I would find a full glass to drink from. Then, after a final twenty-month swansong as a senior machine vision engineer, I retired in October 2000, making, as I had always wanted to do, my own decision to leave.
Updated December 2023