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Mary Gottschalk

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Mary has made a career out of changing careers. Her mantra comes from Ray Bradbury: "Jump off the cliff and grow your wings on the way down!"

Mary spent nearly thirty years in the financial markets, first in New York, and then in New Zealand, Australia, Central America, Europe, and amazingly, Des Moines, Iowa.

Along the way, she dropped out several times, once to embark on the three-year sailing voyage that is the subject of her memoir, SAILING DOWN THE MOONBEAM.

In her latest incarnation, she is a writer, and has completed a novel, A FITTING PLACE, to be released in May
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Sallekhana or Suicide

 


images-2Several weeks ago, a prominent and beloved member of our community fell to his death from the 23rd story terrace of his downtown condominium.


I knew, without being told, that he had jumped. It seemed a horrific way to die, but I recoiled at the term “suicide,” with its connotation of an irrational action and a waste of human potential. At age 86, this man suffered from Lewy body dementia, a progre

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Whitaker Thank you, Mary. Nice to meet you on GR.


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