Life, Rewired: Mark Howard chronicles a life of change across five decades in Aspen
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 on September 13, 1973 and the first few years in Aspen I pursued the ski-bum life. After a year at ...