Changing Lanes Blog: Personal resources

Is it wise to make a lane change at the same time you are facing a crises?

Make your own luck

I often think about how lucky I’ve been to have control of the timing and nature of my lane change. When my division was bought, I was blessed with good health and had few obligations that restricted my choices. So even though I had opportunities…
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Making a Difference

Mother and Child Reunion

This is the first of a two-part series on the topic of choosing to change lanes to become more socially engaged at a grass roots level. Since publishing Changing Lanes, Susan and I have come across several remarkable change artists who have deepened our understanding…
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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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The Not-for-Profit Lane

Lions and Tigers and Bears

In their second half, many boomers would like to figure out how to earn a living while serving the wider community. Willing to give up some of the financial benefits of their careers for the psychic benefits of working for the common good, they hope to…
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Do you have a craving to be your own boss?

Oh Fudge!

You’ve had a good run in your career and now you’re ready for something new. Maybe you can’t quite afford to ride off into the sunset. Or maybe you have a recessive entrepreneurial gene that’s demanding to assert its dominance in this stage of your…
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A Handy Guide for Book Clubs

This list of questions will help guide any book club in their discussion of "Changing Lanes: Road Maps to Midlife Renewal"

 Last week I found myself in the wonderful predicament of facilitating my own book for a book club discussion. My book club, now in our third year, is a collection of women in their fifties and sixties. We make it a point to cover a wide…
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