The end of 2012
December 21 came and went, and the world is still here. But 2012 is nearly over. A time to look back and see what was accomplished, what was left undone, and what's next. I got my Medicare card, so Medicare is "next" for me. And I'm thinking about retiring, so that's another "next," but not until "next" year. Putting off the inevitable, I guess. And I got called to jury duty, so I know I'll be spending part of January at the courthouse in downtown Manhattan. My sabbatical was filled with surprises: surprise surgery, surprise Sandy. Not enough rest and not enough done (there's never enough done, I'm afraid- Jennifer Louden has tried to instill in all of us Conditions of Enough but I'm always upping the ante). Winding down a 40+ year career is much harder than I thought it would be. Twenty eight of those years have been at Pace University, 17 years on the downtown NY campus and now 11 on the Westchester campus. Fou