Today the office in which I work received word that the 80+-year-old secretary had passed away earlier this morning. As sad as the news was, it didn’t come as a huge surprise. I had visited with her twice since she retired, and I could sense that she had given up. Work was her life. Although receiving a terminal diagnosis of cancer is the reason she retired, I don’t feel that is what took her. It was knowing she would never again return to the office. [Read more…]