Retirement: The Good, the bad, & the ugly

As I ponder my upcoming final year of secondary teaching, I am thinking about Clint Eastwood. I could never picture Dirty Harry or the mysterious man of the Spaghetti Westerns growing old, and I didn't like it when it started happening. But unlike many movie tough guys, Eastwood has found ways to reinvent himself...even as an aging tough guy in Gran Torino. He was as mean and tough as ever in that flick. Throughout his career he always had that signature line in his movies, none more famous than "Go ahead, make my day". I have a signature line, too. I'll tell you later.

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