On a polished wooden surface, a doll leans forward as if caught mid-sentence. Her wide green eyes sparkle, her pale hands extend in a dramatic gesture, and her gauzy gray gown drifts around her like ...

Meet Linda Laird Staszewski, married and in her 60s, who, as she put it, has "reinvented" herself with a second career after more than 25 years in industrial engineering. Blessed with skills that ...