She Walked Into the Courthouse Wearing a Fortune and Left With Something Worth Far More

took yoga classes on weekday mornings. She read books she had been meaning to get to for years. She traveled to places she had always placed in the someday column of her plans, places that turned out to be available right now if she simply decided to go.

One afternoon she was sitting at a small table in a quiet downtown cafe, a book open in front of continue reading …