For many a year as a youth and then as a young man, I dreamed of wanting to become an educator.

I thought it would never come to pass. That as the son of a farmer, my life was determined.

But circumstances arranged themselves in such a way that I was able to go to teachers college, train as a teacher and later become a head teacher and then Principal. That in Western Australia and later, from 1975, the Northern Territory.

I am now retired and often look at the twelve years that have passed since my last day at work.

I reflect upon the challenges and celebrations of a career that I am so glad to have experienced.