I got my first job after college not because I was the smartest applicantâI wasn''tâbut because I was the only one with a pilot''s license. I''ll be grateful forever to Bob Parke for hiring me at Flying magazine because that''s where I met the love of my life, Stephan Wilkinson (the author of two wonderful books, The Gold-Plated Porsche and Man and Machine). Thirty years later, Steve and I are still working together, both freelance writers with offices in our little Hudson Valley farmhouse. Our daughter Brook, who''s an editor at Conde Nast Traveler, is the only one with a real job. It''s ironic that my book is nonfiction; the joke at our house is that I always read novels while Steve and Brook are busy "filling the databank." But ever since A Wrinkle in Time, my all-time favorite children''s book, Iâve been hooked. My current favorite is Julia Glass''s Three Junes. Here''s some great reading for anybody who''s re-imagining life. Suzanne Braun Levine wrote thoughtful, insightful articles for us when I was at More; her book, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, is just as helpful and smart. Another contributor to More, Mary Lou Quinlan, tells one of my favorite reinvention stories in her memoir/guide, Time Off For Good Behavior. Mary Lou took a sabbatical from running a top ad agency and never went back. Ten years later, she''s captain of her own ship, a consulting firm called Just Ask A Woman, and a judge on the hit TV show, American Inventor.