A Year Gone By: Surviving Grad School byGina Plaitakis, Sunday, January 23, 2011 Gina Plaitakis is in graduate school to get a certificate for becoming an art teacher. After 18 months of juggling school and homework and motherhood, she’s finding a groove. Read More
Wish Me Luck! byDennis Blank, Wednesday, October 20, 2010 D’blank hatches a plan and says, "so long" to his readers. Read More
Left to Fend for Myself byDennis Blank, Monday, September 20, 2010 In the absence of Coach Lou, d’blank reflects on the last leg of his road trip. Read More
Look Homeward Angel byDennis Blank, Thursday, September 9, 2010 D’blank reflects on his summer vacation. Coach Lou asks him to focus on the value and simplicity of these experiences as he moves forward with Life 3.0. Read More
Another Way of Life byDennis Blank, Saturday, August 28, 2010 Coach Lou celebrates d’blank for living Life 3.0 and encourages him to look for more opportunities to do so while visiting his hometown. Read More
A Journey to the Northeast Kingdom byDennis Blank, Monday, August 16, 2010 Coach Lou applauds d’blank for finding solitude with some like minds in the deep woods of Vermont. Read More
Can You Really Never Go Home Again? byDennis Blank, Friday, August 6, 2010 D’blank and Coach Lou reminisce about d’blank’s hometown and try to come up with creative ways to lend a hand to its struggling community. Read More
Maybe I Should Just Go with My Gut? byDennis Blank, Thursday, July 22, 2010 Coach Lou and d’blank discuss "Moby Dick," Malcolm Gladwell’s "Blink," and the value of taking time to consider your next move. Read More
The Creativity of Daydreaming byDennis Blank, Friday, July 2, 2010 Coach Lou and D’blank celebrate day-dreaming as a tool for creative problem solving. Read More
Nothing = Something? byDennis Blank, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Couch Lou and D’blank discuss the value of staying present when looking for a path forward. Read More
OK, I'm Starting to Get it Now byDennis Blank, Friday, June 11, 2010 D’blank and Couch Lou discuss the five components of well-being as well as d’blank’s search for Career Well-Being. Read More
I Have a Vision -- Or Was It a Dream? byDennis Blank, Thursday, June 3, 2010 Coach Lou and D’blank discuss the discuss the difference between a dream and a visualization. Read More
Inside Out and Backward byDennis Blank, Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Coach Lou and d'blank debate: When it come to setting goals, is it better to work from the outside in... or the inside out? Read More
You Can't Have a Life Plan Without A Vision of the Future byDennis Blank, Monday, May 10, 2010 What Lewis Caroll said is true: "If you don’t know where you're going, any road will get you there..." Read More
Back to school? byDennis Blank, Monday, May 3, 2010 Career transition blogger, dblank, considers the possibility of returning to school Read More
The Blues Make You Feel So Good byDennis Blank, Friday, April 23, 2010 Blogger Dennis Blank continues his search for meaning listening to Delta blues and eating ribs for breakfast in Clarksdale Mississippi Read More
Setting My Goal: Learning How to Write Prose byDennis Blank, Friday, April 16, 2010 Blogger Dennis Blank realizes that his unfulfilled ambition is learning how to tell stories as a writer, learning how to write prose. Read More
Coach Lou Gets Tough byDennis Blank, Friday, April 9, 2010 Coach Lou gets tough, because planning Life 3.0 isn’t supposed to be as easy as it sounds. Read More
Tackling My Life List byDennis Blank, Friday, April 2, 2010 d’blank makes a life list, covering his best skills and the ones he most wants to use in "Life 3.0." Read More
Is This Going to Require Homework? byDennis Blank, Friday, March 26, 2010 Call it what you want, says Coach Lou, but reinventing a life does require real effort. Read More
Do I Need a Plan for the Rest of My Life? byDennis Blank, Saturday, March 20, 2010 Every article or book on retirement says you must have one. So I was committed to staying at my job until I had a plan for the rest of my life. But then I began to see that I might be stuck at my desk at 75, still trying to come up with the plan. Read More
Enlisting a Coach and Charting a New Course byDennis Blank, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Blogger Dennis Blank, just retired from a 24-year career at "Jumbo Corp.," sets out to define "Life 3.0," enlisting a life coach to help chart his new course. Read More
Time Well Spent byGina Plaitakis, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Time Well Spent: After finishing her first semester of graduate school, art director-turned-mom-turned-aspiring art teacher Gina Plaitakis makes the most of the opportunity to catch her breath over winter break. Read More
Finally, He Bought the Farm byJoop Koopman, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Once Barry Meinerth dreamed of being a veterinarian. He ended up a successful magazine executive, but after thirty years of producing magazines, he grabbed an opportunity and bought a farm. Now he produces alpaca wool, and self-fulfillment, instead. Read More
Back to School byGina Plaitakis, Friday, August 28, 2009 As my daughter enters first grade, I too will be going back to school, for the first time in 20 years, to study for a master’s in fine arts education. Read More
Substitute Teaching: Learning on the Job byGina Plaitakis, Thursday, June 25, 2009 Substitute teaching brings little pay or appreciation, but it represents a great avenue for aspiring teachers to gain on-the-job training. Read More
Hammock Time byRichard Lawton, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Hammock time is a special time when just being where you are is enough. Read More
Culinary School By the Numbers byJohn Stephano, Monday, June 1, 2009 Going back to culinary school is hard in so many ways. But there are lots of reasons to stick with it. Read More
Getting Certified to Teach in Public School byGina Plaitakis, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Most states offer an “alternate route” to teacher certification. A key step to getting certified to teach in public school is passing the Praxis exam. Read More
'Caretaking Practice' byRichard Lawton, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Outer change can be quick, but inner change takes time and patience. Read More
Our New Life: Living in Italy byJohn Genzale, Thursday, April 30, 2009 How I learned to stop hopping continents and savor a slower, simpler life, living in Italy. Read More
Expat Diary: Living in Mexico byKen Layne, Thursday, April 30, 2009 Looking for a warmer climate, I found a second home—and more reasons for living in Mexico—in a small town outside Mazatlan. Read More
Rookie on the Champions Tour byGraham Banister, Sunday, April 26, 2009 After years of barely playing golf, Graham Banister rediscovered his game and earned a chance to play as a professional on the PGA Champions Tour. Read More
The Rookie Plays on Sunday byGraham Banister, Sunday, April 26, 2009 Making it to the final round in a PGA tour event: “You never really think you’re going to get there, and then you do” Read More
Getting Paid to See The World bySusan Crandell, Friday, April 10, 2009 Getting paid to see the world and experience exotic locations is a rare and priceless opportunity. But it can be done. Read More
After the Earthquake byRichard Lawton, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 News of an earthquake leads an executive to consider whether it’s time to change the course of his life. Read More
Becoming an Art Teacher byGina Plaitakis, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 After signing on as a volunteer at her daughter’s school, Gina Plaitakis got a charge that has her excited about becoming an art teacher. Read More
Chef School at 40: My First Day byJohn Stephano, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 John Stephano nearly went to chef school when he was 20. Instead, he went into sales and then the investment business. Twenty years later, he’s stirring his passion at the Culinary Institute of America. Read More
The Accidental Winemaker bySharon Boorstin, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Read The Accidental Winemaker at Careers 2.0: Profiles in Career Change on What’s Next Read More
Downshifting at Last byRichard Lawton, Saturday, April 4, 2009 Downshifting to part-time work and a new beginning. Read More
Becoming an Author: From the Corner Office to the Bestseller List byJean Hanff Korelitz, Friday, March 27, 2009 Becoming an Author: Lalita Tademy went from being a single corporate executive to a married, bestselling and globetrotting author. Read More
A Second Chance to Become a Pro Golfer byMark Gleason, Wednesday, March 4, 2009 For the best amateur players, turning 50 means an opportunity to become a pro golfer. Read More