14 — Friday, October 24, 1997 — North Shore News

Author extols
simpler lite

By Layne Christensen
News Reporter <

layne@nsnews.com

PAULA Brook had it
all: “glamorous” job as
a magazine editor, West
Side home, cottage,
boat, six-figure credit
line, a husband and two
kids.
That was until 24 years ago
when Brook, then 43, sur-
prised her staff at Western
Living with the news that she
was quitting in order to spend WRITER Paula Brook
more time at home. oifers alternatives in
That meant moving to Work Less, Live More.
North Van and taking our a
smaller mortgage, jettisoning model of success that is not
the credit line and the execu- realistic for most of us, espe-
tive-class wardrobe of designer cially women,” says Brook.
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