Table of Contents

Trailway Map

 Chapter 1: Mile Marker 267.5

Chapter 2: In Defense of the Midlife Crisis 

Chapter Three: Unfaithful

Chapter 4: Overcoming Midlife Affairs

Chapter 5: Mile Marker 301.5

Chapter 6: Remembering the Lemonade Stand

Chapter 7: Romanticism, Reading and Shotguns

Chapter 8: Longing for the Good Old Days

Chapter 9: Mile Marker 295

Chapter 10: A Time for Adventure

Chapter 11: An Alcoholic, a Phobia and a Car Chase

Chapter 12: A Promise I Made to Me

Chapter 13: Mile Marker 289

Chapter 14: A Horse for Every Boy and Girl

Chapter 15: Miracle at the Bull Barn

Chapter 16: Christmas in July

Chapter 17: Mile Marker 283

Chapter 18: What Our Parents Never Told Us

Chapter 19: A Broken Heart

Chapter 20: A Broken Window

Chapter 21: The Perils of Perfectionism

Chapter 22: Mile Marker 279

Chapter 23: Lost in the Palo Duro

Chapter 24: Snapshots of an Affair

Chapter 25: Bellah's Three Laws of the Lotto

Chapter 26: Mile Marker 266

Chapter 27: Learning to Trust

Chapter 28: Picking up the Pieces

Chapter 29: A Midlife Getaway

Chapter 30: Recovering the Pan Within

Chapter 31: Mile Marker 249

Chapter 32: Letting Go

Chapter 33: Restored

Chapter 34: When Teens Rebel

Chapter 35: Mile Marker 247

Chapter 36: Back to School

Chapter 37: More than Thunder

Chapter 38: On Celebrating My 50th

Chapter 39: Happy 30th!

Chapter 40: Mile Marker 242

Chapter 41: Loss

Chapter 42: To D’Lynne, on Your 53rd Birthday

Chapter 43: Mile Marker 240

Chapter 44: Father of the Groom

Chapter 45: Mile Marker 239

Chapter 46: Our Alaskan Vacation

Chapter 47: Mile Marker 238

Chapter 48: I Choose to See the Angels

Chapter 49: Moving On

Chapter 50: Mile Marker 237

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Author's Biography