During this countdown to whatever it is we’re going to call our status after we depart for Europe in May (retirement, no longer working full time, in-between jobs?) I’m encountering a phenomenon I knew would occur, but really only surfaces from time to time. This is the “That’s the last time I’ll do that” syndrome. […]

The announcement is out and public. Our long held dream to stop working full time has launched and the countdown to the last, for now, punch of the time clock comes with the dawning realization that it is for real.  We will enter into a new phase in our lives next spring that brings with […]