Change is inevitable. We all know this and yet it does not make the decisions that go along with change any more palatable. Often we wait, as if circumstance itself will alter. Then later, if we are wise, we acknowledge that we control only ourselves and that it is we who must always be willing to adjust.The summer of 2007, I stole away to New York City. It was the unmentionable, quiet quest of a woman on the eve of turning forty, facing the trials...