Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.