Changing Lanes Blog: Cross Generational Experiences

Jun
02

Dealing with Weighty Issues

You don't sweat much for a fat girl.

My weight goes up, it goes down, but then it’s up again. No bell curve, no modest sine wave, just a steady trend up a few pounds every year or so. Now, at 57, I find it harder and harder to stay at a desirable…
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May
12

Happy Mothers Day!

My mother was the making of me.

Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and I thought I’d talk about my mother, Nancy King.Mom was 19 when she had me. Training to be a nurse when she met my father, she had to put any ideas of a career behind her when I was born.…
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Apr
21

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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Mar
31

Going Gray….it’s a choice

You're so Vain!

My mother had black hair till the day she died at age forty-nine. Not a hint of gray. Me—I started turning gray when my son was born in my mid-thirties. Thanks to mega-doses of pregnancy vitamins, my hair was luxuriant, so I didn’t mind. Later,…
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Mar
24

Maintaining your health is key to independence

Stay with the chase as long as you can.

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about the dimension of time. Then, quite recently, a reader wrote in, quoting Seneca: “we should live each day as a separate life.”  Now, I must confess that when Bryan Chong first submitted his comment, I first…
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Jan
07

Giving Back and Making a Real Impact

Live Long and Prosper

After launching Changing Lanes, I had planned to write a sequel and dive deeper into the topic of  Paying it Forward. I had amassed a large amount of research material on people who had achieved some level of success—e.g. the lucky ones who hit it…
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Jan
01

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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