Reinventing Yourself After Hardship

Hardship has a way of taking things apart. It arrives in different forms for different people, a loss, a crisis, a collapse of something that was supposed to hold, and it leaves behind a life that no longer looks the way it did before. Sometimes what it leaves behind is clearly less than what was […]
Starting Over at 40

There is a story that gets told about turning forty. That it is a closing rather than an opening. That the major decisions have already been made, the important directions already set, and that anything not accomplished by now showcases a permanent absence rather than a deferred possibility. That starting over at forty is somehow […]