I seem to be having a grammar problem. Or perhaps it is an identity problem. I keep lapsing into first person plural as if I were part of the NHS Language Arts department, as I was for some 28 years. It always comes out “we,” as if I were still part of it. And I find myself writing in present tense, although I have been retired for nearly five years.
My former colleagues at NHS, as well as those who have come on board since I left, are probably thinking “What do you mean we, white man?”
And why is this? I guess I don’t think of myself as a retired teacher, but as Teacher, Retired. I think there is a difference.