Changing Lanes Blog: Never too Old

My achy breaky body

Dem bones, dem bones.

I loved Jane’s blog last week—after all, I’m only three years behind her.  And right now I’m particularly feeling the horrible reality that my “body refuses to fall in line.” It’s no secret that I’m on a personal journey, one in which I’m trying to achieve…
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Turning 60

How did this happen? I can’t be 60! Sixty is the venerable, senior generation – not the young, hip, break-the-rules crowd I grew up with. We were taught to show respect to Sixty, all the while rolling our eyes whenever one of these well-meaning, hopeless…
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Putting it together in retirement

Being a dilettante can be a good thing

“Focus, focus, focus.” This seemed to be the mantra for getting ahead in the decades I was developing my career. As a management consultant, I had to pick an industry (banking) and a functional area (technology) to be credible as an advisor worthy of the…
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Our Family Roots Dig

Finding Rivka

When Susan and I are asked what Changing Lanes is about, we often reply that it’s about realigning who you are with what you do. The many change artists we interviewed demonstrated that living a more authentic life allowed them to tap into wellsprings of…
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Change, change, and more change

Be the turtle

I’m giving a talk today and have been struggling. How do I make the topic of Changing Lanes an interesting one to an audience of mostly 70 and 80 year old women? It wasn’t until I ran into Christie, an 87 year old friend and neighbor,…
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Keeping your mind in shape

Use it or lose it

Rick, my husband, and I met at a bridge tournament in Casper, WY. Two years later we celebrated our marriage by honeymooning where else but….at a bridge tournament, this time in Denver (at its conclusion we also spent time in Yellowstone lest you think we…
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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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