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

looking out at the lights of Portland on the water, I know what it actually was. It was the last day of a performance I had been giving for so long I had forgotten it was a performance. It was the morning, disguised as an ending, of a life organized around my own actual choices.

I am sixty-four years old. Thomas and I are looking at properties in Bend,continue reading …