Johnson said she won't miss the repetitive grading of blue book quizzes, though she did enjoy reading and evaluating research papers. "I have worked my entire life on a very high-powered schedule." "It's really unknown territory," she said, recalling that even sabbaticals and summers have been for writing books for decades. She is interested in volunteering to teach English as a second language, though she will wait to adjust to retirement before making big decisions. She wants to read mystery novels (especially ones with female protagonists) and play with her new kitten. She wants to spend more time at museums in her beloved New York City, on the beach and in the garden. Johnson is looking forward to a slower pace. But there was this feeling inside myself of wanting to have more time to be contemplative, to read quietly without the pressure to produce, to live in a way that's more appropriate to my age." "It was a discernment process," she told NCR, about her decision, which has been a couple years in the making. Joseph and as an academic theologian - two vocations that cannot be separated for her. In fact, Johnson is retiring from full-time teaching and university-related work precisely so she can better attend to her own quest for God, both spiritually as a Sister of St.
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