Rosanne Knorr

Are you ready to get on with your life? Boomers generally are. And that includes boomer Rosanne Knorr. And we mean, your life; not your friends’, not your kids’. She writes about it in this excerpt from the introduction to her book, The Grown-up’s Guide to Running Away from Home.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Helen Keller

Long, long ago—before career ladders and children and homes with mortgages to be paid on a regular basis—I dreamed of sipping wine at a French café with a view of the Eiffel Tower or waking to the day in a whitewashed cottage on a Greek island. You can fill in your own dreams. We all have them.

But for most of us, the travel through life follows a practical path. As we reach middle age, it’s our children—the students in high school or college—who participate in a year abroad. We see them and say, “I wish I could have done that.” Then, one day, my husband and I asked, “Why can’t we do it now?”

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