Janet Banks

Janet Banks is a retired business executive and writer who is exploring the joys and challenges of aging in real time. Her personal essays have appeared on WBUR’s Cognoscenti, The Rumpus, and the Silver Birch Press. She has published in the Harvard Business Review and contributed commentary regarding career development to numerous publications. View Janet’sContinue reading “Janet Banks”

Rocks and Roots

by Janet Banks I sit in my chair with a stack of unread New Yorker magazines that I’m determined to read or toss, overcome by a sense that life is slipping through my fingers. I’ve no zest, just guilt about feeling as I do—a person who has everything she needs, except…what? Has age crept upContinue reading “Rocks and Roots”