New Beginnings

After 36 years in the classroom I changed careers in June 2009. I left Marysville-Pilchuck with a deep, profound, and enduring sense of gratitude for the privilege of having been a teacher.

Now, I am a real estate agent. I am enjoying my new career. I like sales and I enjoy helping people. It is very satisfying to help someone get their home sold or to help them purchase a new home. I tell people that “I’ll take care of you.” I do and I feel good about that.

Still, at this moment, I miss Fridays.

There were many reasons I made the change from education to real estate sales. Simply, I was ready to do something different. I wanted new challenges, a new schedule, and I wanted to write in the mornings. I have been writing a fishing blog and really enjoying that. Eventually, I will start a real estate blog. While the fishing blog has some of my nonsense mixed into it I don’t feel it has “room” for some of the other things I would like to write.

On September 11, 2009, Ashton, one of my Facebook friends said that it was Friday and that Friday was the day for a few words. There were several other posts and then, Nathan, suggested I write something each Friday on Facebook. I wrote something that morning. I was quite surprised by the “like” responses, the comments, and the messages that resulted. I gave it some more thought and have decided to start a blog that is separate from things about fishing.

What is this blog exactly? The best answer is, “Time will tell.” At this moment I begin with items at least partially resembling “the few words” I had done in the classroom for so long. Most of all of what I wrote these past decades was written to be spoken. There are no students sitting with me now as I write so the task is different; I am writing for the eye not the ear so it is difficult to speak to a specific audience. Nevertheless, I begin.

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