One Man Plans

Figuring out the next chapter in middle age

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash

I looked up at the right hand corner of my computer screen one day, where I noted the time: 2:53, 2:55, 2:58. The weeks, months and years go so quickly in middle age, and yet the minutes and hours pass slowly at my day job, 15 years after I first walked in the front door. Back in 2000, when I started with my organization, I was in graduate school (again) trying to…