The Milwaukee I spent a weekend in recently with my two teenage daughters is walkable, beautiful in places, rich in culture and history, and full of the kind of off-script moments that make a girls’ weekend memorable long after it’s over. If you’ve been avoiding Milwaukee, it might be time to think again.
Most retirement content (books, podcasts, financial planning guides) is written for people whose kids have left the nest. The vision it sells is the same as the one I had going in: extended travel, leisurely mornings, and complete control over your calendar. You do get some of that. It’s just not the whole picture when you have to get someone to dance at 6pm.
Romney’s book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, is incredibly well-written and eye-opening. Somewhere between her descriptions of the fascinating world of rare book dealing and her excavation of the lives and hardships of famous female authors of the 1700s and 1800s, I realized something that stopped me cold: we have let men curate so much more than just our decisions about what to read. I quickly gave this book five stars. Here’s why you might like to read it too.