(This is the third installment of Barbara’s journal sharing her insights and experiences as she approaches retirement. To read the first installments, click here. )
 
Euphoria

I am consulting part time now.

Having left my corporate job of 20 years, I am loving, I mean wallowing in the joy [...]

Four Days Out
Going to Pieces…

Mark Epstein wrote “Going to Pieces without Falling Apart.”  That’s me today, only I am not sure about the falling apart part.

My normal level of irreverence torqued up into overdrive.  Flip comments about people and projects that only some think funny.  [...]

Two Weeks Out

Ready to go

I’m 66, and I’m retiring in two weeks.  I’ve worked for 30 plus years, the last 20 in this stressful company.  I’ve been through a lot of organizational angst, and learned a lot.  I am passionate about much of my [...]

Between the 2nd and 3rd Act there is a period of time that is for many of us the most difficult of all. In Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot new book The Third Chapter she calls it “entr’actes” or intermission. While reading her [...]