Chapter 11: Final Retirement
CHAPTER 11: FINAL RETIREMENT When we returned from New Zealand and sold our shell of a home in New Orleans, we started half-heartedly looking for another overseas job. There were age restrictions for visas. We didn’t fancy going into the US test-driven madness; so, in June of 2012 at the age of fifty-nine we tried retirement. In March of 2020 the Corona virus swept the world. This chapter is about the last eight years. As I am in the high risk group, who knows if there will be a last chapter. Six months before Katrina hit I finally hung on the walls of our house in New Orleans artwork by an Ecuadorian artist I had become friends with over twenty years earlier. In 1985 I was teaching middle school science at Academia Cotopaxi in Quito. My mother had returned to university for a degree in art history. She had become interested in Haitian primitive art and asked if Ecuador had a primitive art style. They did. The artists could often be seen walking the tourist...