The myriad challenges of running a business can overwhelm and detract from the amount of time that an independent worker can spend focusing on actual client deliverables and billable work.
His wife Clara, 46, a lawyer who has worked part-time while raising the couple's two children, is ready to increase her billable hours to boost the family income as she and Don begin the final push toward their goal: leaving the workaday world, still youthfully vigorous, to own and operate a bed-and-breakfast in the Berkshires, as well as a 1.7-acre spread for raising ostriches.