I left for a while

It has been quite a few months. I found it hard to come in here without feeling sad. I busied myself with practical things- teaching, housework, spending time with Mom and the boy... and it actually helped.

After twenty two years of working ten-hour days and weekends filled with marking, I am so so so relieved and glad to be rid of that kind of life. It was not really a life. It was a miserable fraction of a life that I lived with work dictating everything.

Finally when I quit my job in 2019 and when I thought I could have more time to spend with family and friends, it had to happen that an online friend would take his own life.

Just as I thought I could leave to start a new life in Spain, the pandemic would wreak havoc and international borders would close.

But I will still give thanks today. The best is yet to be.