This article examines (1) the elimination of mandatory retirement in American higher education, (2) research related to retirement decisions of university faculty, and (3) the author's thoughts and feelings before and following retirement from academia. An interior monologue, stream-of-consciousness method is used to reflect the author's movement into retirement following 35 years as a university professor. Reminiscence, life review, and a pilgrimage after 50 years to the author's childhood home, are incorporated in relation to the retirement process. The subsequent decision to embrace part-time university teaching is reflected within the interior monologue and in relation to recent retirement research.