Teacher Lee’s Life in Ten Chapters

This blog segment describes the story of my life (the 1950s to the present).  These chapters will achieve the following English objectives: Teach you new vocabulary words, idioms, and collocations

Let’s start out by first defining what I mean by childhood. A person’s childhood may refer to different age ranges depending on the focus of the conversation. In terms of maturity,

In Chapter 1, you learned that I grew up under humble circumstances and that my parents were poor and uneducated. Nevertheless, my parents provided my brothers and me the basic necessities of life,

Let’s review our travel down my timeline. In Chapter 1, you learned a little about my childhood years. In Chapter 2, you learned about my college years. Now we begin

Continuing my saga, I have just left the Navy and accepted my first civilian job with Westinghouse Electric Company. It is August, 1980, and I have moved to Zion, Illinois, to work in

Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 5 begins that part of my life when I began “renting” myself out for hire on an hourly contract basis, usually for one

Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 6 begins that part of my life when I worked directly for a utility (that is, I was a utility employee,

Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 7 begins that part of my life when I tried to leave the nuclear field and work in more conventional types

Chapter 8 of my life brought me full circle. When I left the US Navy in 1980, I began my professional civilian nuclear career with Westinghouse. After working at Westinghouse for

April, 2014 At the end of Chapter 8, I quit Westinghouse to return to the contracting world.  Chapter 9 discusses my contract jobs after leaving Westinghouse. My last chapter explained

This post brings me to final chapter of my life — retirement.  As always, the purpose of documenting my life in this way is to accomplish the following goals:  (1) to