At the risk of sounding whiny, let me just say that retirement is a lot harder than I ever thought it would be. When I was most overwhelmed throughout my teaching career, I imagined what it must be like to have seemingly unlimited free time, to have control over how to spend each day. Be careful what you ask for, as the old saying goes… When I retired from teaching four years ago, I encountered challenges I never dreamed of. Instead of writing daily, sewing beautiful quilts, and filling my loved one’s mailboxes with homemade cards, I found myself spiraling downward into an abyss of online articles that made me feel informed, but left me spending days without accomplishing much else. I’ve found good…