Close to 400 guests, dressed in novel-inspired costumes, cocktail attire, or draped in gold, danced the night away, enjoying drinks, delicious food, and a silent auction at “Novel Night 2.0, The Golden Ages.”

Tara Yeager had a background in finance, as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for 15 years, but she had a yearning to do something that fit in with her lifelong interest in a healthy lifestyle.

Having been a longtime early morning walker and jogger around my neighborhood between Milton Road and Forest Avenue, I start looking for winter’s departure and spring’s arrival as short-month February segues into March.