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

for the leaves and the gutters and every other small maintenance task that had occupied the margins of our weekends for twenty years. We were done striving.

The silver Honda Civic parked across from our driveway didn’t register as anything. Our neighbor Mrs. Patterson taught piano and hosted book club and seemed to rotate through a steady stream of continue reading …