So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Changing Lanes Blog: Being creative
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 »
May
04
Men in Tights: Real Men’s Stories about the Impact of Ballet on their Lives (Part 2)
Inspired by learning that Rahm, aka “Rahmbo” Emanuel was a ballet dancer, I wrote a piece about other macho men whom we know in our community as lawyers, doctors or Indian chiefs who have also been ballet dancers. These are lane changers who have incorporated…READ MORE »
Feb
24
Men in Tights: Real Men’s Stories about the Impact of Ballet on their Lives (Part 1)
Have you ever walked into an appointment with your pediatrician, lawyer, or builder and been surprised by the lean, muscular body that moved so authoritatively yet gracefully to greet you? You’re dying to know how he manages to look so erect and loose-limbed at the…READ MORE »
Feb
10
Sundance Film Festival: Renewed Rebellion
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
Susan and I returned to Sundance this year. We had taken a year off from our annual pilgrimage to Park City because the experience had become such a giant hassle that we could no longer justify the expense and time away from our families to…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 »
Nov
24
Dump the Duty Demon
You changed my life!
Are you the “responsible one” in your family? The one everyone counts on to drop everything and do what’s needed for an ailing parent or child. The one who was expected to “be good”, study hard, work harder, and be there for everyone else?Chances are,…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
03
Marrying in Midlife
Getting it right for the last time
When I retired in my early fifties, I never expected to remarry. I designed and built my home in the mountains thinking I would always live in it alone. I was comfortable being by myself. After all, in the previous three decades, I spent less…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 »
Oct
06
How to Achieve Renewal without Dumping Your Career
Crime doesn't pay--enough
Sometimes you can take a metaphor too far. When Susan and I write or talk about Changing Lanes, our road trip imagery might give the impression that we are trying to get all you fellow boomers to dump your current careers. You might conclude that…READ MORE »
