A Cotton Rat for Breakfast: Adventures in Midlife and Beyond

100 pp. "Memoir by Emily Kimball in which she describes life-changing transitions from age 45-84. She begins with leaving her state job and children for a year to pursue her passion of working in the outdoors field by camping across the US pursuing outdoor employment, her return to Richmond, VA to continue seeking employment, and having her children join her again. After securing a job in her field, she finds fulling work for a decade and retires in order to continue her adventures: section hiking the AT trail, biking across the US and a range of other outdoor experiences during her 60s and beyond. She continues her education by taking writing classes and joining writing groups and writes about her travels and experiences and sets up a business as a motivational speaker talking about her experiences, risk taking and ageism."