I hope your 2025 is off to a good start. The creative bunch that is my blogger’s writing group thought it would be a good time to write about Something, ANYTHING, New! The New Year brings brings in for me the date I’ve looked forward to for so long – The Year I Retire! As in, retire from full-time work and being gone from home for 10 hours every weekday, 47 weeks each year (yes, I get very generous vacation by American standards, but I am quite “senior”) I’ve worked full-time for 42 years, with 6 months off during a temporary assignment to Italy (yes, it was bliss). And it…