I’m a big fan of adventurer Roz Savage, who has rowed across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, by herself, for months at a time in a rowboat. I loved her first book, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, and highly recommend it if you’re like me and enjoy sitting in a cozy chair, sipping something warm and delicious while reading about someone else doing scary, uncomfortable things. The scary, uncomfortable things I do myself never feel nearly as much fun at the time.
It was Roz’s solo row across the Atlantic that inspired me to write a similar kind of adventure–along with a pretty serious disaster–for Halli and her grandmother Ginny in PARALLELOGRAM, Book 3: Seize the Parallel. Obviously I recommend that book, too.
Roz was recently interviewed by Cloris Kylie, and that led me to this great post by Ms. Kylie about how to know when it’s time to make a change in your life. Having made huge changes in my own life throughout the years–from leaving my career as a trial lawyer to starting my own business to finally becoming a full-time writer just like I always dreamed of doing when I was a little girl–I agree with what she says in her post.
I’m passing it along because some of you might recognize your own situation in some of the items on her list. Just yesterday I had a long brainstorming session with a friend of mine who has decided to leave her current career and start out on something completely new. She, too, is a big adventurer–an outdoor guide, ski instructor, sailor, travel guide, climber, mountain biker, backpacker, former competitive gymnast–but even with all those brave accomplishments to her credit, she still feels a little intimidated by taking such a big leap. But as Cloris Kylie and Roz Savage and so many others understand, when it’s time it’s time, and you just have to do it. Otherwise you’re living someone else’s idea of your life instead of your own.
So brew yourself up something warm and delicious, settle in for a quick read, and enjoy!