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Changing Lanes Blog: Social/political Activism
Jul
14
Find the Cure to Midlife Inertia
A Passion for Education Reform
I’ve got a license to steal and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. As an author and blogger on the challenges and benefits of changing lanes at midlife, I have gained access to some of the most interesting and inspiring people who left high…READ MORE »
Jul
08
Passing The Torch Hand to Hand
Ballet Lessons for Real Life
Teaching has enormous appeal to Boomers as an antidote to careers that have come to feel soul-less. In Changing Lanes, I wrote about conducting an unscientific poll, asking male friends in their fifties and sixties what they might have been but for the pressure to…READ MORE »
Apr
23
Aiming Wall Street Brains at Skid Row
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes.
OK, let’s get it out of our system. All the pent up rage against the finance industry for impoverishing the country, not to mention our own individual portfolios and retirement accounts.Retirement??? Ha! Remember when your biggest concern was what you would do with your leisure…READ MORE »
Nov
17
Taking Chances with your Community
Rumor has it.....
When I retired, as most people know, I headed up to the mountains of Northwest Colorado. I had grown up in a small town in rural Delaware and was anxious to return to my simpler roots after living my entire adult life in Washington D.C.,…READ MORE »
Nov
10
Architects of Change
Women take the lead
It had been several years since I attended the Women’s Conference (officially, The California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women), so I accepted an invitation to go as a guest of my friend, Annie Gilbar, Editor in Chief of the new Los Angeles Times Magazine, which…READ MORE »
Oct
20
How do you change lanes if health insurance is an issue?
Divided We Fail
Have you thought about making a change in your life—either to retire, slow down, or pursue new interests—but the issue of health care and health insurance rears its ugly head? If so, you’re not alone.I personally have dealt with the problem of affordable health care…READ MORE »
Oct
13
What’s the meaning of community?
Give and Take.
I’ve been pondering the idea of community a lot recently. To be honest, Jane and I have been debating this topic for some time now. We’ve come at it from the notion of volunteerism. Who volunteers…and why? Do you volunteer because you are part of a…READ MORE »
Sep
29
Political bargaining with the truth
Drill, baby, drill!
I must have way too much time on my hands.The evidence? I’m watching an inordinate number of political news shows. As a result, in the past month I’ve variously experienced cautious optimism, raw disgust, anger, “you got to be kidding me!” exclamations, and downright concern…READ MORE »
Sep
15
Super conducting, super colliding, slip-sliding away
Geeks, nerds, eggheads, and other terms of endearment.
Jane and I both majored in mathematics while in college—and discovering this common link only served to further cement our friendship almost 25 years ago. While attending the University of Maryland in the early 70’s I found pride in being one of at most four…READ MORE »
Sep
08
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…READ MORE »
