For the majority of my life I followed a calendar tied to education. My year started the day after Labor Day(the first Monday in September) and ended in late May or early June. The first 22 years of my life followed this pattern, as did my graduate schooling and my profession as a college professor.Now that I am retired, the calendar year supposedly starts on January 1. New Year’s Day kicks it off and the cultural expectation is that it is a time to reassess and reevaluate one’s life. Resolutions supposedly begin on that day.
However, I have never adjusted my inner calendar to accommodate the external one. September always seems like the beginning of a new year. I go shoe shopping for a sturdy pair of oxfords for the fall. My interest in cooking dinner returns. While I don’t make formal resolutions, I think about areas of my life that could benefit from a little more attention. This year, for instance, I could use a little more room between my pants and my stomach! Lycra can only do so much.
So happy New Year to any of my readers who also feel revitalized by September. It’s bound to be a great year.
Saved By Words 
Do I ever hear you! Even though I am not currently in the classroom, this time of year always fills me with a burning desire to go buy my favorite pencils and pens!
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And I live a few blocks from Staples, “the back to school store.”
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Being rebellious as always! What will your big project be for the new year?
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Good question. First I am going to Maine for a week. Then I have to write that alumna report. Then I will continue work on a memoir.
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You’ll be keeping quite busy, then! Are you publishing the memoir as a book?
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Still sorting out privacy struggles.
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I can understand that. Maybe use aliases for people? And secure permissions where possible?
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Will have to be aliases. The people involved would never agree. Fortunately the most difficult are dead.
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September is my favorite month and a month of new beginnings for me too!
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I suppose for us that worked in a school system, school calendar is the norm. Some instructor are differentiated as 10 or 12 months.
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September new year. Thank you for this interesting post Elizabeth
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