David Fleming
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Archives: The Non-Working Life (Retirement-Based Posts)

Since my May 2024 retirement, many of my posts have been about retirement. A chunk of them involve fictional therapy sessions where I struggle with the meaning of my career and sudden retirement. They can be found in the Therapy Sessions' section.

Other random retirement blogs, including many poems, are as below:

May 15, 2025: Use-By Date (Poem on human best-use-by dates)

December 14, 2024: Treadmill (Poem on treadmill, actual and figurative)

October 23, 2024: The Walk (Poem on walking)

October 11, 2024: My Year Of The Dragon (Observations on destruction of much I hold dear)

October 3, 2024: The Monster On House Arrest (Poem on surviving a Home EEG)

September 12, 2024: September (Outside Higher Ed series -- poem on what should be calm of September classes)

September 6, 2024: The First Week (Outside Higher Ed series--poem on the chaos of first weeks of classes)

August 26, 2024: Exile From The Hippodrome (Poem on missing the Fall faculty and staff orientation)

July 8, 2024: Monday, You're Finally Mine (Poem at how retirement makes Monday look different)

May 18, 2024: I In Your Mirror (Poem on the pace of retirement)

May 15, 2024: A Retiring Sort of Reflection (Piece comparing my retirement with my father's)

May 14, 2024: Silence (Poem on silence when retired)

In addition, any number of the final 20 entries in my 365 artists in 365 songs series have a retired person's point of view: The Pandemic Panoply.