Ok, I haven’t read Sarah’s new book, [1] Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? because it isn’t published for another 18 days, but I like what I’m seeing about it - probably because it is a book about right where I am in my life right now. It is about one’s choices and opportunities as he or she gets older and the non-trivial process of both moving into the new phase of getting older and making it through transistions in life, whether chosen or not, such as a complete change in career.  Those are exactly the two issues I’m dealing with currently.

Here are the topics, as decriobed on her [2] webpage:

1. Coming Apart - Losing your identity. We’ve raised our kids, made a mark in our field. Why are we still here?
2. Trying to hang on - Having your face lifted and other ways to say it ain’t so.
3. Facing facts - Dealing with your kids leaving home. Becoming a “master” - the p.c. word for older.
4. Stepping out of the Box - Taking risks, leaving your comfort zone. As Crosby, Stills & Nash sang: “What have you got to lose?”
5. Giving Back - You marched when you were young? How can you help make the world better now?
6. The Inner journey - In the East, this time of life is reserved for intense spiritual work. Will we pursue that?
7. Actresses, Supermodels and Musicians - Stories of women who had the great bodies, and musicians who had the great chops. Can they still rock ‘n roll?
8. Expansion of love and sex - Do we end up with a partner or alone? Joan Hotchkiss, the actress who gave a one-woman show in L.A. about sex after fifty, said: “I refuse to go unfucked to my grave!”
9. Moving - Why and where do we move? Some do it to live more simply, some to build a dream house, some to form a community and grow old with a little help from our friends.
10. Surrender - Do we rage against it or do we accept: we’re not in control?
11. Rituals - Some do it with prayers, some with red thong panties and the Rolling Stones. How do we start this excursion to the unknown?