Copyright 2000 by Karen Blue. All Rights Reserved.
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By Karen Blue
Part I: Is This All There Is?.
Careers, corporate ladders, glass ceilings, stock options...heart attacks, ulcers, cancer, and divorce. As young as forty, women are taking a second look at their choices and asking, "Is this all there is?" Burned out, used up, or trapped in unfulfilling careers, an attorney swaps law for painting, a corporate executive gives up prestige to search for purpose, and a manager of a temporary employent agency sheds her trappings for a life of simplicity.
Chapter 1: Opting Out
Chapter 2: In Search of Me
Chapter 3: Reflections on a Canvas
Chapter 4: Mirror! Mirror!
Chapter 5: Sweet Simplicity
Chapter 6: The Happy Wanderer
Part II: It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings
A husband leaves his wife of twenty-nine years; a hospital casts aside a nurse with a silent stroke, penniless; a financial advisor swindles a woman out of her retirement savings late in life. These women pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and find their heartaches transformed into blessings as they discover the joy of living solo in Mexico.
Chapter 7: Another Door Opens
Chapter 8: Bag and Baggage
Chapter 9: Life in a Tree House
Chapter 10: Stretching the Bucks
Chapter 11: Sweating Bullets
Chapter 12: Rambo's Sister
Chapter 13: From Darkness into Light
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Part III: Indiana "Joans"
Born too late to ride westward in covered wagons, these midlife mavericks lust for adventure. They long to experience a new culture, to establish roots in foreign soil, to free themselves of society-imposed roles, and to test their own mettle. These intrepid women hark to the call of the unknown and heed the counsel of Yoda in Star Wars: "Try? Try? There is no try. Only do or not do."
