Changing Lanes Blog: Susan's Musings

Can you recover after hitting bumps in the road while changing lanes?

The Cat House Hotel.

In last week’s blog, Jane talked about people who wanted to own their own business. Their motivations varied as you might suspect: Lucie Bava wanted to seize the day and shine —and was able to turn a hobby into being a specialty foods provider to…
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A Handy Guide for Book Clubs

This list of questions will help guide any book club in their discussion of "Changing Lanes: Road Maps to Midlife Renewal"

 Last week I found myself in the wonderful predicament of facilitating my own book for a book club discussion. My book club, now in our third year, is a collection of women in their fifties and sixties. We make it a point to cover a wide…
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What Gets Your Juices Flowing?

The Sundance Kids

What do you think about when you hear the words “Sundance Film Festival?” Probably (if you think about it at all) Robert Redford, lots of movie stars, Park City winter wonderland, and a vibrant night life. Jane and I have been going to Sundance for a…
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Time, Time, Time is on My Side

Time.

Do you take it for granted? I do. I see time as stretching out before me, allowing me to do, see, or otherwise experience just about anything that I could possibly conceive and want to do. And when it comes to thinking about the second…
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The New Friends we are Meeting are Broadening our Horizons Even Further

Friends Do Broaden our Horizons

Jane and I attended our first book signing last Monday in Houston.Why Houston, you ask? Well, a good friend of Jane’s, Linnet Deily (who’s briefly profiled in our book) offered to sponsor one! As a bonus, her friend and fellow lane changer, Deborah Cannon, helped…
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Choosing the Right Path Early in Life

Mystic Crystal Revelation

My husband, Rick, and I traveled to Ohio over the holidays to visit his two daughters, ages 15 and 20. They didn’t know I co-authored a book and as we talked about it, they both expressed an interest in having a copy. While saying, "Sure!…
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Searching for Meaning, Purpose, and all those other Blissed-out Phrases

Is That All There Is?

When Jane and I decided to write this book, we needed a guinea pig for our first interview. I immediately thought of my friend, Ruth. She, like many of us, had been both a beneficiary and a victim of her own business success. But in…
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