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What if You Could Take a Midlife Gap Year (or just act like it)? (Ep 138)
What happens when the life you carefully built suddenly no longer fits?
This week on Surfing the Quicksand, Kathy talks with novelist Lindsey Goldstein about reinvention, creativity, and the courage to start over in midlife. Lindsey’s debut novel, The Gap Year, follows Jane, a 46-year-old woman whose life unravels almost overnight: her daughter leaves for a traditional gap year abroad, her husband announces he’s leaving the marriage, and her career reaches a breaking point. In response, Jane does something wildly out of character: she boards a plane to Ecuador to pursue a decades-old dream of…
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