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For the Aspen Times Weekly Mark Howard has embraced change since he moved to Aspen, at 22, in 1973. He was a ski bum and restaurant server who rewired to become a 9-to-5 white-collar guy and family man. He he was a financial advisor who, at age 57, took a 90% paycut to teach English at Basalt High School. Now retired, he’s published a nontraditional memoir about his concept of periodically “rewiring” one’s life. The new book, “A Rewiring Life,” is excerpted here. I arrived in Aspen...

arewiringlife.com He was a ski bum who flipped to become a 9-to-5 guy and family man. He was a financial advisor who took a 90% paycut to teach high school English. And now he’s a retiree with his first book on shelves. Mark Howard has tried to embrace change since he moved to Aspen, at 22, in 1973 and he reflects on those changes in his memoir, “A Rewiring Life.” “Life is a series of chapters and changes,” Howard said in a recent interview on gondola plaza in Aspen. The book recounts...