In a moment, life can change forever. Yes, yes, we all know this and have been through it a hundred times. But suddenly, one of those moments really does change everything and you can no longer ignore how profound these moments can be. When my husband and I decided (literally in a moment) to buy a ruined farmhouse in Italy, our world turned upside down. And we've never looked back. I had a long career in technical and marketing communications writing in Silicon Valley; he was a professor of psychology and art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for 30 years. We gave it all up more...