Baby Boomers Re-invent the Midlife Crisis

Via USA Today:

Baby Boomers and older Generation Xers are giving the midlife crisis a new spin.  Whether by force or choice, they’re embarking on divergent new careers and going back to school. Far from biding their time until retirement, they’re bolstering friendships and family ties, adopting healthier lifestyles and exploring new or long-forgotten passions.

Phoenix resident Patti Craze started soul-searching when her interior design and home-staging business slowed in 2010. So, on her 46th birthday that year, she took up a long-forgotten childhood pastime: ice-skating. Timidly lacing up for the first time in years, she once again became that tiny third-grader going round and round on a rink in her Seattle neighborhood.

Read more in USA Today.

A little known fact about me:   at the age of 51, I thought it would be a good idea to take up hockey.  Unlike Patti Craze, I had never skated regularly as a child.  In fact, I had only skated one time since 1965, and on that occasion I fell and tore my rotator cuff.  But Minnesota IS hockey, and I wanted to try it…I took a clinic, joined a team…and within 6 months, had broken my leg.  My very first broken bone!   I never even got to play in a real game, and my hockey career was over before it even started.  But I will say that hockey is by far the most fun sport I have ever attempted to play.   The broken leg was definitely worth the few moments of glory I was able to achieve on the ice!