One Woman's Journey Through the Last Year of Work and the Quiet Leap Into What's NextWhat does it feel like to approach the end of a working life? Not the grand farewell or the glossy travel plans-but the quieter, more personal process of letting go, shifting gears, and waking up to a new kind of freedom?In Retirement Chronicles: A Light on Altered Land, Ariela L. Zucker invites readers into the year before her retirement-one marked by small reckonings, hesitant excitement, and honest reflections on identity, time, and purpose. With warmth, humor, and a touch of poetry, she explores the in-between space where one life winds down and another begins.This book is not a how-to. It is a companion for anyone standing at the edge of change.