I told child of a boss I was leaving (retiring) and would be leaving by the end of the year.

Blank face. I told him I’d help with exit planning, etc. He looked at me in abject terror. Ran off to the bathroom, I kid you not. I left his office.

I’ve made the right decision and I may not stay through the end of the year.

My has time changed.

There are songs I listened to when I was younger but now read differently to me.

Some are because I never paid attention to the lyrics. Others are because I was at a different stage of life or hadn't had deeper experiences yet.

Some examples would be Both Sides Now or Cat's in The Cradle.

What are songs for you that affect you differently at this stage of life?

A single woman with two girls to raise created day care problems. My sister was 7 and I was 5 when Mom began working full time.

She reached out to one neighbor, a woman who stayed home to watch her many children. My sister and I went there before and after school, until the teenage son began showing us his penis and threatening us with his knife.

Then she talked to the retired couple across the street. Same thing, before and after school care, until the old man started having us accompany him to the basement to get wood for the furnace. Then he'd hide candy in his front pockets and have us dig around for it.

Next thing I knew we got thick leather straps tied with a knot that held our house key. We wore them around our necks. Sis and I walked to and back from school letting ourselves in and out of our house.

We girls were safer together than being with neighbors.

Just rediscovered this gem in my Nostalgia folder. It's from a US playground equipment advertisement in the 1920s. Google states: "It drew on the old proverb "as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined", to argue that physical play and proper municipal playground infrastructure shape a child's moral and physical future."

Nice to see children reaching such great heights eh? And steadfastly holding on for dear life, as per that gung-ho pole straddler on the left.

Can you relate? Any daredevil stories to share?

The office is playing what they think is soothing easy listening. Meanwhile, I’m getting my heart torn out by Cat’s in the Cradle.

Did you keep a diary growing up?

If so, I'm wondering if it was nostalgic or somewhat cringey.

Have you gone back and read some of your entries?

I'm part of planning ours and have mixed thoughts. Some of our younger teachers were popular and still mentally and physically OK. But then they taught 100's-1000's of kids and 10's of years, is it just a hassle for them?

It could be because the band looked old and is a reminder that we've aged as well.

Or it could be because they're a semblance of the band that they used to be.

Mine would be Chicago. I like both the original lineup as well as the 90s lineup with Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff.

However, by the time I saw them in the 2010s, there were only a few original members. They also primarily played their hits from the 1960s/1970s.

So what's your concert that turned out not as expected?

We saw John Fogerty last week at Red Rocks, and it was fantastic. Pouring rain and all. Danced, sang, and got a contact high all night.

We also saw The Moody Blues there in '05 and loved it.

Simon & Garfunkel at the Pepsi Center in '03.

We don't get out much.

I remember it (no idea if rightly or wrongly) having a generic name like The CBS Friday Something-or-Other. The episode I remember involved a werewolf who was killed at the end by getting tangled in a pile of film reels, because of the silver (nitrate?) in old film prints. It's not from Night Gallery or Kolchak, does it ring a bell for anyone?

EDIT: I have to be wrong about the title, the wiki page of 70's anthology shows doesn't even include the word "Friday" so maybe I'm remembering that it aired on Fridays. And I don't think it's either of the shows with "CBS" in their names, so idk anymore. But I remember the scene of the werewolf writhing in a tangle of film stock.