I was talking recently with a friend who has moved into her third 30 years of life. Her kids are launched, her career as an exhibit fabricator (she’s made more than five replicas of the White House for various museums and exibit centers) is changing because of the economy, and she and her husband are looking at what they want to do with their lives at this stage.

Her husband has fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a sailboat. Many of their discussions center on sailing around the Caribbean and adventuring in open waters off North Carolina. It’s a thrilling prospect, but my friend says that it is a completely different conversation from the first and second “30 year” segments of her life.

She laid it out like this:

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