Leap!: What Will We Do With the Rest of Our Lives?

A no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges baby-boomers face and the roads open to them. For many years Davidson was a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties her life came apart: she could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift--but found that she was not alone. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as: How does a high-powered person learn to step down the ladder gracefully? How can women be sensual and not touch-deprived as the number of available partners dwindles? How can we arrange to grow old with our friends? What will be the fire at the center of our lives? Why are we still here?--From publisher description. find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift--but found that she was not alone. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores suchquestions as: How does a high-powered person learn to step down the ladder gracefully? How can women be sensual and not touch-deprived as the number of available partners dwindles? How can we arrange to grow old with our friends? What will be the fire atthe center of our lives? Why are we still here?--From publisher description. find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift--but found that she was not alone. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores suchquestions as: How does a high-powered person learn to step down the ladder gracefully? How can women be sensual and not touch-deprived as the number of available partners dwindles? How can we arrange to grow old with our friends? What will be the fire atthe center of our lives? Why are we still here?--From publisher description. find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college. For the first time ever, she had nothing to do. She felt adrift--but found that she was not alone. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores suchquestions as: How does a high-powered person learn to step down the ladder gracefully? How can women be sensual and not touch-deprived as the number of available partners dwindles? How can we arrange to grow old with our friends? What will be the fire atthe center of our lives? Why are we still here?--From publisher description. use their experience to seek success.

Sara Davidson wrote the definitive book about the baby-boomer generation: the phenomenal?New York Times?bestseller?Loose Change—still in print (and was also made into a six-hour NBC miniseries). She is also the author of?Real Property?and?Cowboy, both national bestsellers. In the 1990s she was co–executive producer and head writer of the CBS series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, and she has produced and written more than 60 hours of other television movies, miniseries, and dramatic episodes. She is a host for her local public radio station, KGNU, in Boulder, Colorado, is a contributing editor to?O: The Oprah Magazine, and writes regularly for The?New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Harper's, the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.