Last October My ex-neighbor asked me what I had been doing recently. “Wandering around aimlessly”, I quipped. She look startled. Then disgusted. She never did think I gave her straight answers. Yet that is exactly what I have been doing for the last year when Luke, my 16 year-old son, I raised alone for 12 years, moved in with his Dad. Wandering, wailing at my empty nest, wondering what I should do next, that’s what I did with a lot of my time. I told her the truth. Oh, I look busy. I’ve been playing at being an independent corporate trainer. I love it when I’m working, but that’s only been about 40% of the time. The idea was to use my investment portfolio to keep things going until it really got off the ground. Then
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