Years in a Retirement Community

After a broad variety of roles and settings, from a youngster transported to a foreign culture speaking an unfamiliar language, to a retired academic playing major roles in his national professional association, I now find myself in a new role and a new setting: I’m one of just over a hundred residents in an independent-living retirement community. It is indeed a setting that is very different from any I had experienced before in my long and variegated life.