Sheila Key

What’s a baby boomer without a midlife crisis? Albuquerque’s Sheila Key and Dr. Peggy Spencer have just written a book about it called, 50 Ways to Leave Your 40s: Living it Up in Life’s Second Half. They’ve allowed BoomerCafé to run an excerpt which is rightly called, Okay, Have a Crisis Already!

The first “midlife crisis” I ever witnessed (though I was clueless at the time) happened around 1975, when I was fifteen. My best friend’s dad, a jolly-big fellow and friend to my whole family, suffered a heart attack, went off to some big-city hospital for what seemed like forever, and came back a trim, tanned Mr. Groovy. I’m sure I gaped to see this “old” family friend, a guy no cooler than my own dad, decked out like all the young dudes, in turtleneck, bell-bottoms, even a goatee. Suddenly I understood what people meant when they said, “You look like a million bucks!”

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