After 32 Years of Sacrifice, I Sold My Business for $18 Million and Went Home Early

before the gray set in: blazing copper and blood red and a deep burnt orange that looked almost defiant, like something choosing to be beautiful on the way out. I turned onto Maple Street and saw the leaves on our front lawn, three weekends’ worth of raking that hadn’t happened. I smiled at it. We would hire someone, I thought. We would hire someone continue reading …