Changing Lanes Blog: Living Intentionally

The Importance of Ritual when Changing Lanes

My Neighborhood Bar

We all have a special place where we go to feel good. It’s that favorite place we go to escape the daily grind, meet a friend, or mark a special occasion. In this place we can be ourselves and take a break in both space…
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Freedom to Choose

Political Activism, Part Deux

Anyone who read my first blog on political activism posted on February 11 knows where I stand politically. I wrote about how this year’s hotly contested campaign reawakened an innate part of my psyche that wants to make a difference in people’s lives. And since…
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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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Changing my relationship with food

Don’t sleepwalk while you eat

Six weeks, 38,500 calories, and 11 pounds.Six weeks is how long I’ve been on my new health regiment. During that time, I’ve created a calorie deficit of 38,500 calories—by either eating less or exercising more. As I reported in my last blog, I need a…
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What do I want to be when I grow up?

Do as I say-- not as I do (or did)

Why is it that our parenting years tend to overlap with the period of our most intense career development? Seems like some sort of cosmic joke on humanity that we have the hearts and minds of our littlest and most vulnerable members in our hands…
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My new business card

Playing the back nine.

When our book first came out, I got an email from an old friend who was a stellar entertainment lawyer. He was grateful that Changing Lanes was being published just as he was turning 65 and setting out on his own path to renewal. While…
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Bricks and mortar: Going beyond Facebook

Get Smart. Get Real.

When I was working in the telecommunications industry, my area of expertise was technology. My career was not unlike others in tech project/product management: a mix of hits and misses. The development of an interactive television product that never saw the light of day was…
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Eating everything on your plate

Little kids in China are starving.

I was brought up the way many of you probably were—I was trained to eat everything on my plate. No ifs, ands, or buts. My mother and I shared a laugh a couple years ago regarding my all too headstrong introduction to “waste not, want…
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