SN W BIRDS BY ANN HEDREEN
“Engage with verve, because autopilot is death,” writes Barbara Bradley Hagerty in Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife. It’s her one-line summary of all the research she did to write this very engaging 464-page book (published in March 2016), and it played over and over in my head as I met with several couples who fall into a unique subcategory of retirees known as “reverse snowbirds:” they’re the ones who head north instead of south, straight for snowy slopes, not sandy beaches or sunny golf courses, when they’re ready to reinvent their lives. Engage with verve. Autopilot is death. You sure can’t ski on autopilot.
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3rd Act magazine | winter 2017
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