Longtime Aspenite Mark Howard looks back (and ahead) in new memoir
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 Howard’s life in a series of short vignettes, from his childhood in California through his many p...