Former Parade editor-in-chief Kravitz makes amends and spends a year living connectedly. Reflecting on his life after losing his job, the author was not pleased with what he found --- a workaholic living in self-exile not just from his family but his greater life. He felt diminished because of his firing, and he felt guilty about the important things he dropped by the wayside: family and friends, a broad curiosity, an inclusive worldview. "As good as my life looked on paper," he writes, "it was sorely lacking in the one area that puts flesh on meaning: human connectedness." So the author devoted an entire year to tying up loose emotional ends.