Daddy Goes On a Trip: Dealing With Travel and Deployment
I'm a former teacher, guidance counselor and current parent and grandparent.    After spending ten years in education as a teacher and guidance counselor, I purchased a convenience store and provided full service counseling with the bread and milk.   The retail environment allowed the flexibility to work as many hours as I wanted   as well as the flexibility to be a room parent for my children for 9 consecutive years.   An agreement to make our children our primary priority and our careers secondary, was a precursor to my wife and I being parents.  We have both endeavored to stay faithful to that agreement unto the next generation, our grandchildren.   Prior to selling the convenience store, I founded a computer business.   Computers and their myriad nuances occupied me until we sold that business several years ago and mostly retired.   My time today is spent reveling in my grandchildren, babysitting, golfing, reading, blogging and enjoying the opportunity to try many things that were proscribed by tight time parameters in the past.   As an avid reader, one of my life long goals has been to become an author.   As I have a truly eclectic nature, I suspect that my work will span multiple genres.   My hope is that what I write will be of benefit not just to me but perhaps to those who may enjoy or even learn from what I write.   My life has been blessed by four decades of happy marriage, wonderful children and now astoundingly wonderful grandchildren.   I learn new things everyday and hope to continue to learn as I age.   My family has been my priority all my life and I see no reason to alter what has worked so well.