Professor Sharon

These posts of several days are just reminders of how busy my life as a college professor really is!  Not to mention the part of life that involves laundry, the first lawn mow of the spring, a delightful Mother’s Day spent with daughter and granddaughter and paying the bills!

This morning I enjoyed my once a semester breakfast date with the woman who founded the Early Education Department at Greenfield Community College.  I have never said that I replaced her — I took the job she held for many years before retiring and then passing the baton onto me.  I wonder if the new kid on the block even knows who I am — but that doesn’t matter.  What matters is that I had the honor of honoring this woman’s important work and carrying on her legacy.  Like life itself, I do not know what those after me will do, but I know that upon my retirement I can say I worked really hard to carry forward in new and interesting and important ways the work she started.  When a gathering of the profession in our town results in 90% of those in attendance having been through our program, either having had her or me as a professor, that is such a good, good thing for the children in our community.

I have made a difference in someone’s life — that is a good way to spend a busy five days – five years — wait, 14 years since my work at this college began – this is a good thing.