Here's to a colleague who survived ofsted, restructures, and the photocopier with grace.
Fresh today · Sunday, 7 June
New Wishes
A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.
May the textbooks you ordered finally arrive and be useful to whoever inherits your room.
Retire into the company of friends who don't need a fire drill rehearsal scheduled monthly.
Wishing you reading time that isn't followed by a quiz you have to write yourself.
You were the colleague who made hard years bearable through small, well-timed kindnesses.
May the school keep your name on the wall, even if only in the staff bathroom roster.
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Browse by occasion
What are we writing today?
Cabinets sorted by occasion. Open one — pages are arranged by warmth, not algorithm.
- Anniversary
- Baby
- Belated
- Best
- Birthday
- Boy
- Boyfriend
- Christian
- Christmas
- Congratulation
- Diwali
- Easter
- Eid Mubarak
- Engagement
- Farewell
- Fathers Day
- Friendship
- Funny
- Get Well
- Girl
- Girlfriend
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Graduation
- Hanukkah
- Heart Touching
- Holiday
- Invitation
- Job
- Love
- Miss You
- Mothers Day
- New Year
- Recovery
- Retirement
- Romantic
- Thank You
- Thanksgiving
- Wedding
- Well
- Women's Day
- Sympathy
- Valentine's Day
- Halloween
- Veterans Day
More from today
Here's to walking out of the gate one last time without checking for forgotten keys.
Wishing you a retirement long enough to forget which textbook is currently officially adopted.
Step away knowing the teachers you mentored quietly are now mentoring others in your shape.
May the bell ring for someone else, while you finally listen to whatever music you want.
Retire well, colleague — the chalk dust settles, but the lessons you built keep teaching.
You're retiring? Finally, an excuse for the long lunches we've been pretending were spontaneous.
Congratulations — you can now nap during the hours you used to call work meetings.
Friend, your new full-time job is explaining to people what you do all day.
May your retirement hobbies include fewer spreadsheets and significantly more questionable hats.
You've earned the right to wear pajamas until 3 p.m. without anyone noting it on a review.
Retirement suits you — which is alarming, because you haven't tried it yet and you're already smug.
Wishing you the freedom to ignore group chats with the dignity of someone who outranks them.
Friend, your alarm clock has been dismissed without severance — congratulations to it as well.
May your golf game improve to merely embarrassing, up from its historical catastrophic level.
You're not retiring, you're transitioning to professional opinion-haver and amateur snack inventor.
Wishing you mornings that begin with coffee and end with the satisfaction of nothing accomplished.
Friend, the office misses you about as much as you miss the office — which is to say, fondly enough.
May your retirement be exactly long enough that you forget your old password but not your stories.
You've waited years to nap with conviction; the time has arrived, and the couch is ready.