BreakAways in the News

Posted On: November 18, 2015
Comments: No Responses It’s becoming evermore impossible to keep up with the wealth of sabbatical, career break, and related stories floating around the internets and beyond. So let’s leap right in!My favorite oxymoron: Play date.(BTW, another…

Hey, NYC, Go to MPG Tomorrow Night!

Posted On: September 19, 2014
Comments: No Responses I love collaborating with the good people at Meet Plan Go and I’m really enjoying cranking out a monthly “Big Boom Roadshow” column for them.  I dedicated my latest verbiage to shameless (but sincere) promotion…

WSJ: “Enter the Career Break”

Posted On: December 18, 2013
Comments: No Responses Well, well, well. Just when some might think the Career Break movement has taken a break of its own, the WSJ pumps out a powerful article about Baby Boomers embracing the “Midlife ‘Gap’ Year.” Read…

Career Break (Rockers) in the News

Posted On: November 8, 2012
Comments: No Responses Following Google alerts for “career break” is a pretty uneventful task. There are a few bloggers and advocates that get the occasional mention. But beyond that, the newsmakers are mostly athletes and celebrities. Today, we…

Meet, Plan, Go! 5 Good Questions

Posted On: October 25, 2012
Comments: 3 Responses Last week, on Tuesday night, about a thousand people gathered in 10 cities to for Meet, Plan, Go!, the annual career-break event. Here in Minneapolis, yours truly served as moderator for a panel of recent…

Spell It Out…Meet, Plan, Go!

Posted On: October 16, 2012
Comments: No Responses Oh geez. This year’s career-break summit, Meet, Plan, Go! is just a few short hours away. As the MSP resident expert on prepping, I better start…prepping! I think I’ll start by making an acrostic with…

11 Reasons to Meet, Plan, Go!

Posted On: September 18, 2012
Comments: 2 Responses In less than a month, the nationwide career break meetup called Meet, Plan, Go! will take place—for the third year in a row. If you have ever—EVER!—pondered the wild and radiant notion of taking a…

Can Career Breaks Buy Happiness?

Posted On: September 9, 2012
Comments: No Responses Happiness gets a lot of attention. In fact, Americans seem obsessed with it (or the pursuit of it). This closet curmudgeon sometimes gets crabby about this simplistic word—and wonders if we ought not to increase…

A Fantasy Confab with Dan Buettner

Posted On: April 9, 2012
Comments: No Responses Dan Buettner, a local boy done real good, is changing the way the world feels about being blue.  His original Blue Zones book and the latest Thrive are selling by the boatload—with evergreen promises like…

11Q: Lucky Alexis Grant

Posted On: March 24, 2012
Comments: No Responses Lots of people dream of taking a career break, and then there’s Alexis Grant.  She wrote the book on the idea—literally.  Some might question her sourcing, though, since the first quote (among many) comes from…