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 often wished to do and had to put aside. After twenty-five years (October 2025), there are still too few hours in the day, my criterion for a good life. Continued at bottom ...
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Includes writings for poetry groups
Includes recipes, wine and wild mushrooms
Recent changes
April-May 2026
Brought the Verse and Prose page up to date by entering the latest poetry writing. In December 2025 I had put together a chapbook "Conversations With Myself" with selections from the last twenty years, along with some my own photos, so it feels like a good time to give writing a rest.
Also updating and restructuring the Photography section with some photos from the last several years.
Added photos to the Wild Mushrooms page.
Restructured the German Rieslings page (wine pages to be updated).
October 2025
Not really a change: celebrated the 25th anniversary of retirement
Occasional site conversion and restructuring continues because of Google Sites Migration (required by December 2022). I'm still updating Ends and Odds page with items from my previous website versions, and also combining webpages which have little or no site conversion under a page called, unsurprisingly, "Under Construction".
Celebrating Retirement (continued) ... A five-month trial run of retirement after one of those high-tech company downsizings were a successful test of my expectation that I would find a full glass to sip 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. The years following have brought fulfillment of that vision, sometimes to the level of needing to retire from retirement. Email available.
Updated May 2026