It's Been a Long Time Coming.....

Over 5 years since I posted here. Time doesn't fly, it tiptoes around in a flanking maneuver and kicks you in the ass. One day you are a 40-something graduate student looking forward to a new career. Next thing you know you are a 50 year-old unemployed teacher relocating and hoping for better prospects. Placing you life into sterile, cardboard boxes and stacking them in a cool, dry place. Waiting to hear the judgement of strangers on the space you spent 15 years creating, perfecting, and now must abandon. People say "when a door closes, somewhere a window opens." From where I am sitting it feels more like the hatch on a submarine at 30 fathoms.