In the Garden - An Executive’s 2nd Act - Tending an Upstate Oasis - NYTimes.com

• By ANNE RAVER

  Published: June 19, 2008

  COPAKE FALLS, N.Y.

• MY friend Suzanne and I headed out of the city last week for a leisurely wallow in an upstate garden: Margaret Roach’s personal paradise in the hills of Columbia County.
• This woman was living my dream — and the dream of so many other 50-somethings like us, who long to rekindle the creative fire that is snuffed out in the corporate world. And her garden blog was the best I’d ever seen. Her observations were so palpable I wanted to see the real thing.