Additional Books
Shoya Zichy: Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do
Offers extensive self-testing in order to guide you to positive career choices.Bob McDonald: Don't Waste Your Talent: The 8 Critical Steps To Discovering What You Do Best
Provides insight into matching interests and passions with a career.Barbara Moses: Career Intelligence : The 12 New Rules for Work and Life Success
Moses provides focused advice on how to become a “career activist” and achieve ongoing career success.Marc Freedman: Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America
Discusses how boomers will turn their golden years into an intense time of social activism, volunteerism, and lifelong learning.Po Bronson: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Offers compelling insights into the minds of people who have reexamined their life—and their life’s work.
Useful sites
- Reinvention Institute
This Miami-based organization bills itself as a partner in growth, change, and reinvention. It offers in-person and virtual classes and workshops, online tests and analysis, and books on how to get started and navigate career issues. - North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
UNC/Asheville serves as a clearinghouse for retirement-related information, events, and services. It also includes a college for seniors: the Center for Creative Retirement. - Harvard School of Public Health- MetLife Foundation Reinventing Aging: Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement
This report looks at how boomers are redefining aging, work, and other life activities. - Staying Ahead of the Curve: The AARP Work and Career Study
Examines demographic trends and changes in attitude and behavior among boomers and other older workers. - Center on Work and Aging
This leading research center, located at Boston College, offers news, research, facts, statistics, and more.
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Biography
I live and work in West Linn, Oregon and have written professionally since 1981. I've authored hundreds of articles, including pieces for AARP, the magazine, American Way, America West, Amtrak’s Arrive, Discover, Hemispheres, Industry Week, Home, iQ, Los Angeles, MSNBC/MSN Online, PM Network (The Project Management Institute), Southwest Spirit, Westways, Wired and The Writer.
I am a past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I’ve served as a guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Writer’s Workshop, and I'm an instructor at UCLA’s Writer’s Program.
