That's a good question. What does an old guy do when he's no longer doing what he did for so long?

For 42 years, I was a faculty member at Missouri University of Science & Technology. For over 60 years, every fall saw me going to school as a student or a teacher. For the last three and half years of my career, I was chair of the Department of English & Technical Communication.

All that is over. On 31 August this year, a Monday, I thought, "It's a week until Labor Day . . . ahh, a three-day weekend!" Then I thought, "So what? It's all weekend!"

Now I have time to mimic Whitman to "lean and loaf" and "invite my soul."

I've been retired for two and half months now. One thing I've done is start this blog. I've also been going to Vessell's Fitness Complex, a very nice facility to which I belonged for a number of years. A friend there, who's been retired longer than I, asked what I was doing with my time. I gave him an idea of what I'm doing. He responded that I had a schedule and that was good. As it is.

I was exhausted when I retired. One thing I've tried to avoid is loading up on obligations. That's gone well. Other activities will be reflected in other posts here.