Yeah, the empty nest is a trying time when you've identified primarily as "father" for over two decades. At the same time, "reinventing myself" was to retire a

Yeah, the empty nest is a trying time when you've identified primarily as "father" for over two decades. At the same time, "reinventing myself" was to retire at exactly that moment. I was lucky of course to be able to do that — by cashing-out the expensive California home and then "down size" back to the midwest where I grew up. I am considering substitute teaching in the area in order to maintain an income — a more modest one, this being Nebraska.