Going Quiet

This may perhaps be the last post to this site. I’ll maintain things here until the day I retire, as it has good information for those of us in the Technical Writing field.

I’m currently working what will be my last job before that retirement occurs. (Headhunters, please take note) I had intended to retire next year, but Life intervened:

My wife, my True Love, Partner in Life and beyond, and my best friend of 46-1/2 years passed about a month and a half ago.

These last few years, I became her full-time caretaker as she battled her way back from falls, and then from Asthma-Onset COPD (WAY different from that type that smokers get). She had gradually grown weaker, although her spirit was undiminished; and her last hospitalisation brought a turning-point in her disease and real light at the end of the long, dark tunnel of physical decline. She was always mentally sharp; indeed challenging me every day to be better.

If there was anything good to this COVID lockdown, it is that I was able to work full-time from home, and therefore be right nearby in case of need – instead of an hour or so away.

Now, the house has lost all its light, and an immense quiet has descended. I celebrate her life and the part I had in it; and find it hard to be deeply sad, as we both have a strong faith and therefore know that we will see each other again.

Meanwhile, my work provides me not only with income to replace her now-ended retirement checques, but also… a distraction from the deep quiet mentioned above.

I love what I do, and work with a great team of people to accomplish great things together.

One cannot ask for more.

I used to be able to listen daily to Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac radio show (before he was disgraced) and he had a great ending: “Be well. Do good work, and keep in touch.”