I now only have four days left in my teaching career. I am swiftly reaching the end. I need to savor just a little bit. I will soon be retired and a classroom will never be the place where I do my best work again. I can reach and teach still, but my health holds me back. I can barely present for ten minutes any more. I end up gasping for breath and needing to sit. I have never been a teacher who sits behind the desk. I am always stalking the entire classroom and working over the shoulder of the kid with the question. Okay, I can’t do the work any more… so it is the right thing to retire and let others in better shape take over. I’m dreading the end, but soon I will have to embrace it whole.
Being A Teacher
June 3, 2014 · 12:54 am
Catch a Falling Star 
I understand very well. I have issues with my lungs. I’m sure you will find something to occupy your time. Before you know it you may find there aren’t enough hours in a day. Wishing you all the best.
Thanks. I plan to write and tell stories.
Good luck on the new phase your life is entering. I don’t know you but it sounds like you had a love affair with your career choice. Only very fortunate people can say that. Best wishes and best of health to you.
I will miss teaching more than anything. I did truly love working with kids. But I will also rejoice in my future freedom from Texas Education (an oxymoron of the worst degree).
Enjoy your retirement, and I hope you get to feeling better soon.
Life can only get better from here. Thanks.