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Goodbye

Posted on August 15, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

I’ve saved the hardest until last. I’ve junked and stored, celebrated and cried. I’ve doubted and been certain. I’ve had my rounds (and rounds) (and rounds) of Lasts: last time I watered, last time I slept in a proper bed, last time I took… Continue Reading “Goodbye”

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For Good

Posted on July 31, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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“We’re going to miss you. You may not be aware, but you’ve been an asset to your neighbors, and the neighborhood,” a fellow former teacher, neighbor and parent to former student, Cole, told me the other day. He’s 23 now. An assistant superintendent at… Continue Reading “For Good”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #blessed, #California, #change, #education, #forgood, #grandparents, #hope, #love, #loveeverymoment, #moving, #newbeginning, #RBUSD, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #sellingthefamilyhome, #teachers, #wicked

Feeling the feelings

Posted on July 13, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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It’s been hard for me to write. It’s been hard for me to talk. It’s been hard for me to breathe. It’s been hard for me to put one foot in front of the other, knowing that everything is about to change; accepting, crying, laughing, my… Continue Reading “Feeling the feelings”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #change, #grandparents, #historichomes, #home, #hope, #jumpandtheparachutewillappear, #love, #parenting, #parents, #peace, #redondobeach, #retirededucator, #retiredteacher, #selliingthefamilyhome

The Journey

Posted on June 3, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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PREFACE Today is my 66th birthday. In 14 years, I might be dead. Gruesome, I know. But my dad, 14 years hence my current age, had open heart surgery at 80 and my mom, she died in her 60s–my age, I believe. So, there you… Continue Reading “The Journey”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #California, #eberlewine, #education, #grandparents, #growingold, #hope, #loveeverymoment, #maryoliver, #parentofadultchildren, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #sellingthefamilyhome, #teachers, #teaching, #thenextchapter, #wisdom

Love and loss

Posted on May 30, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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It is, without debate, a glorious Sunday before Memorial Day. Low 70s, slight breeze, monarchs dancing in the misty currents, absence of sirens from the Hermosa Beach Fiesta festivities, skywriting planes overhead, two impending offers on my house, another showing later this afternoon, and… Continue Reading “Love and loss”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #California, #coronavirus19, #education, #grandparents, #hope, #loveeverymoment, #memorialday, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #teachers, #teaching, #texas

It’s all a matter of perspective

Posted on May 13, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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Just saying, RV generators are the enemy of quietude-seekers I’ve had some brilliant, peaceful, coastal windy camping days. All of my neighbors have been kind, quiet and respectful. The woman to my right, Clarita, lives in San Luis Obispo and is on a fixed… Continue Reading “It’s all a matter of perspective”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #cambria, #campinggrandma, #campinglife, #centralcoast, #grandma, #hope, #joy, #love, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #vweurovancamper

I jumped

Posted on May 9, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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Sometimes, a lot of times, no, most days, I don’t want to write. I know it may sound strange since I’ve known I was a writer since the 3rd grade and Miss Maxine Way at Beryl Heights Elementary School pronounced in her Southern drawl, “Janet, you… Continue Reading “I jumped”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #grandma, #hope, #love, #moving, #newbeginning, #peace, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #travel

From lost to found

Posted on April 28, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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It occurred to me this morning about 3 a.m., that we’re all out at sea, cruising to places we think we want to go to, or the opposite, getting stuck miles from shore. We wait. The skies rumble as the waves engorge and we… Continue Reading “From lost to found”

Category: UncategorizedTags: ##love, #actIII, #educators, #faith, #gratitude, #hope, #humility, #lifeizgood, #loveeveryminute, #retiredteachers, #teachers

It’s kinda like this…

Posted on April 25, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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Since last we left, B’s medical troubles have continued to decline, I still dig my new love, Led Zeppelin, and the theme of CHANGE hurricanes like a News at 11 Accuweather forecast. Tail end of March, beginning of April, lucky girl me got to… Continue Reading “It’s kinda like this…”

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Dazed and becoming less confused

Posted on March 22, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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A long time ago, in the days when people wrote letters and there was no such thing as texting and Instagramming, my girlfriend, Julie, and I would write each other. I addressed the letters to Dearheart and placed the time, date and mood of… Continue Reading “Dazed and becoming less confused”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #exhusband, #hope, #ledzeppelin, #lessons, #love, #loveeverymoment, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #teacher

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