Beating Boredom

What do I do now?

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

One morning last week as I was walking through the grocery store, the store manager passed me in one of the aisles, stopped, and asked my name.

“I see you in here almost every day, so I thought I ought to know your name,” he said.

I had to laugh about this later because then it occurred to me that in my retirement from the workplace, I am doing exactly what my…