Second Acts That Change Lives: Making a Difference in the World

Are you realizing that the first half of your life is over and you’ve been so busy concentrating on building a career or raising a family, or both, it has suddenly dawned on you that you may have lost yourself in the process, that the dreams you had when you were younger were set aside for more immediate concerns, or you find yourself frustrated that you have not had the time to truly give back. Mary Beth Sammons offers readers a chance to change all that in Second Acts That Change Lives . This book offers a collection of honest and inspiring stories delving into the lives of a community of mid-life trailblazers wanting to make changes in their lives and found as they reached inward for the strength to change, almost unanimously reached out to share their better self, their skills, their talents to make the world a better place.Among the stories are: a 60-year-old divorced mum and grandmother, blind in one eye, who sets up a programme in Nicaragua for single mothers to teach them how to make quilts to financially sustain them; a 50-year-old single woman and high-powered career person who met the love of her life at 50; he died two months later when hit by a car while training for a triathlon. She went to Russia and adopted two children and brought them home to raise in Michigan; and, a 45-year-old male prosecuting attorney who loved to swim as a child. He went returned to school for a degree in physical education and now teaches swimming lessons. Second Acts That Change Lives is a wake-up call, an intervention of sorts to help prod readers to pursue their dreams - to turn the ‘someday I’d love to’ into ‘today I will’ and, by doing so, making a profound difference in the world.