Life is full of twists and turns, roadblocks and detours, but there are no shortcuts in this life. With the help of our friends and family and a few signs left by our mentors before us, we learn to find our way.
My life so far has been one hell of a journey and I was able to cope, survive, and ultimately conquer my fears, using the skills I acquired as a government consultant and community counsellor.
After writing my life's story, A Bonza Life: The Story of a Baby Boomer, the positive reception I received impelled me to share the steps I have presented to thousands of baby boomers over the last twenty years to help them prepare for a meaningful future.
In this book, I outline a map for boomers to prepare mentally and financially for an extended career, re-entry into the workforce, and a retirement that is longer than expected and well-overdue.

Brian Murphy
Brian Murphy is an independent analyst, organizer, educator, and writer. Until his retirement at the end of 2006, Brian was a member of the staff team of the Canadian international social justice organization Inter Pares, where his work focused on policy development and programme support for Inter Pares' com- mon cause action in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Canada. He also served from 1983 to 2004 on the governing body of the Project Counselling Service, an inter- national NGO based in Costa Rica, which provided political and material sup- port to the self-organization of people and communities dislocated by violence and repression in Latin America. Brian served on the Advisory Committee for the Institute in Management and Community Development at Concordia University (Montréal) from 1992 until it closed in 2010, where he was active as an external advisor and seminar leader on issues of social activism and citizen participation. Brian remains an active member on the Steering Committee of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group-ICLMG (https://iclmg.ca/about- us/), which he helped create in 2002; and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of AidWatch Canada, based in Black Rock, Nova Scotia (http://aid- watchcanada.ca/about/). Brian is the author of numerous articles on global social justice, civil society organization, and the process of social change. He currently writes at MurphysLog.ca.
David Austin
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Pluto, 2018), Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (Between the Lines, 2013) and the editor of Moving Against the System, The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (Pluto, 2018). He is the winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize. He is the producer of a three-part radio programme on CLR James, The Black Jacobin (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/c-l-r-james-the-black-jacobin-1.5863866).