The Basic Need to Leave Your Mark

Creating evidence that you were here and that your life mattered

Photo credit: Emily Park on Unsplash

When I retired from the classroom this past spring, one of the things people told me was that “it will take a while” for retirement to sink in. I have found this to be true in a qualified way: for example, until school started this fall, I simply felt like I was on summer vacation. Now that everyone is back in school, this retirement thing…