“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.”  – Steel Magnolias  - Truvy (Dolly Parton)

I had not planned on retiring from teaching for at least four more years, but life changes.  Retirement is bittersweet - leaving my 3rd grade class,  my educators, and my profession.  
I love teaching AND I loathe it.  How so?   I taught every age from Kindergarden to adults.  I enjoyed the laughter, the hugs, the "aha" moments, and even the tears.  I loathed feeling I wasn't ever doing enough, feeling I was teaching the wrong things, and feeling I wasn't a good enough teacher.  After years and years,  I learned that nearly every good teacher I know has these feelings of inadequacy.  Perhaps that's what keeps us strong and prepared - always trying to do more.
I will always be a teacher of some sort; I'm just too bossy not to be.