Retirement: A Journey not a Destination: Reflections from a Traveler One Year Down the Road

A Baby Boomer and thirty-year veteran of public school teaching and administration, the author set out to disprove the assumption, commonly held by her work colleagues, that retirement must be either a Life sentence or a Get out of Jail Free Pass. She was inspired by Gretchin Rubens' Happiness Project and the work of Robert Raines on creative aging to construct her own Retirement Project for discovering the pathway to personal happiness and fulfillment that would carry her into the elder season of life. Beginning the day she walked out of her office for the last time, she took the next twelve months to work on ten resolutions that she had identified as critical to the accomplishment of her vision for a meaningful and purposeful retirement. Over the months, she gained valuable insight into her past and pursued new pathways and interests for the future. In the end, she concluded that retirement is more like a journey than a destination; more like a construction project than a memory garden; more like a beginning than an ending. The book chronicles the steps in her journey into the first year.

Author: Katherine P. Stillerman
Publisher: Katherine P. Stillerman
Published: 01/24/2013
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780988828711

About the Author
Katherine Stillerman is a retired educator who worked for thirty years in public schools in North Carolina, as a teacher, a curriculum coordinator, and a principal. She graduated from Furman University and earned a Masters in Intermediate Education from Campbell University as well as a Doctorate in Educational Leadership at UNC-Greensboro. Kathy and her husband Bill live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, their home since 1985. They are the parents of four sons, and have six grandchildren-and-counting.

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