When Everything Changes, Change Everything

By Karen Elizabeth Russell

The life of a desperate romantic has many twists and turns. Ruby always feels compelled to follow her heart, and she sees romance in everything around her. Every sight, sound, and sensation captivates her. Her love of life leads her forever onward in a reverie of dance and song. So when her marriage disintegrates, Ruby staggers off into the great unknown to rebuild her life.

Then she meets an old grandpa named Joe, and the two embark on a journey of adventure and romance, two oldies who simply wont act their age. Far from settling down into a sedentary lifestyle, they dare to chase their dreams right to the end.

In When Everything Changes, Change Everything, author Karen Elizabeth Russell tells a tale that celebrates the twilight years. Through Ruby and Joe she shows that, for those who feel the best in life as passed them by, daring to live is the only viable option.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Mar 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781452527888

Karen Elizabeth Russell

Karen Elizabeth Russell has dabbled in many different career options throughout her life. She has performed to children as a magic clown, and she teaches yoga as a qualifi ed Satyananda yoga instructor. Now, in the prime of her life, she enjoys freelance writing. She resides in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 03/02/2015

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

To my ever-growing family

Don’t be afraid of change.

Tomorrow is calling.

Be not the slave of your own past.

Plunge into the sublime seas.

Dive deep and swim far.

So you shall come back with self-respect;

with new power; with an advanced experience

that shall explain and overlook the old.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chapter One

N othing lasts forever.

Old Ruby had lived a comfortable, satisfying life. However, everything changed the day her lifelong marriage disintegrated.

She staggered off into the great unknown to rebuild her life.

Her