What''s Next

In the very near future I may be moving with my daughter and son-in-law to a small town which is almost an hour away from my job as a school bus driver, so I’m thinking about retiring.

Hold on now, I did say “thinking.” Despite dreaming about retirement for years, I don’t want to rush into it. (Okay, so I am going to be 74  this summer, so what?) When I dream about retiring, what I dream about  is reading, writing, walking and meditating – those four things and nothing else. But then I worry if they will be enough. And then again, maybe they will be since there are already over two dozen books on my reading list including  –

Touching My Father’s Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Ear of the Heart by Mother Dolores Hart

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Last Train from Memphis by Peter Guralnick

Careless Love by Peter Guralnick

A Grief Observed by CSLewis

So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart

Paula by Isabel Allende

The Self Aware Universe by Amit Goswani

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Rilke’s Book of Hours

Life After Death by Deepak Chopra

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Quiet by Susan Cain         

Losing My Mind by Thomas DeBaggio

Okay, enough! You get the idea. Besides reading I will be working on my second book and I already have an idea for my third.

So listen, do you think that's enough to keep me busy for the next dozen years or so? If not, I look forward to reading any book you may want to recommend in the comments.

My memoir, Dear Elvis, is available at amzn.to/2uPSFtE