“How Does It Feel to be Retired?”

Pat Austin Becker
Crow’s Feet
Published in
3 min readJul 20, 2021

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My answer to this question is evolving

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How do you answer the question when people ask, “How does it feel to be retired?”

What is the right answer to that?

I retired from the classroom in May at the end of this school year. So, for me, when people ask, I just tell them it still feels like summer break. I mean, I taught for twenty-five years, and I always…

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Pat Austin Becker
Crow’s Feet

Consumer of life, ELA teacher, Louisiana ambassador, avid reader. Author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Plantation (LSU Press).