Crossing the equator

Savage celebrates crossing the equator with a bit of champagne, the only alcohol she's had in more than three months.

One night in London years ago, back when she was still trudging to her office job, Savage sat down and wrote two obituaries. The first described the person she wanted to be. The second described the life she feared she was headed for if she didn't make a change.

"I did have that moment when I crossed the equator last year when I thought back to it. And I just thought, wow, I've more or less turned into that person that I wanted to be," Savage said. "I was quite proud of that because it so easily could not have happened. It was that fork in the road and I took the scary-looking one. But it's been so worthwhile. And I'm so glad that I was just miserable enough with my own life that I chose to do that."

April 5, 2010 12:00 PM PDT

Photo by: Roz Savage

| Caption by: Anne Dujmovic