Think about what comes to someone’s mind when you use the phrase “Living life on the edge.” More often than not, one would assume that you were speaking about a person who is a risk-taker. Perhaps they would think of a person who has a dangerous occupation, such as the man who extinguishes oil well fires. On the other hand, maybe they would think of a person who takes up a menacing hobby such as mountain climbing. Although this is the common usage of this phrase, Gail Sheehy in her book New Passages, proposes that all human beings ....