When we retired from teaching high school, Barbara and I briefly talked about moving. We've lived in the Greensboro area since the day President Nixon resigned, and have enjoyed it here, but still we talked about moving.
We could move closer or further from the many different branches of our family trees. It would be an adventure.
We decided that one of the great things about living in the same community for a long time, is you get to run into people you know. So we stayed.
Yesterday at the Science Center where I teach all manner of science to elementary school kids, I ran into two former students from the early 90's. One is now a teacher, and the other was chaperoning with her son's class. It was wonderful catching up with our stories, and that I really enjoy. Leia is a teacher of special education. Both the teacher and the mom were students in my 9th grade economics class.
That was great. Along with sharing science with the kids, I was seeing two of my former students in their roles as mom and teacher.
Then in the grocery store that afternoon, there was a former colleague and her mother shopping. Angie is now a grandmother and is being a great help to her aging mother. That was great, too.
We get to run into people we know.
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