Leaving Home at 83

<h2>So You Think 83 is Too Late to Start Over? Think Again!</h2><p><br></p><p>Join Sandra Butler as she leaves her home and community of fifty years to move into a residential facility in an unfamiliar city. With meals activities and proximity to her children what could possibly go wrong? Well as it turns out-just about everything. </p><p><br></p><p>Butler vividly portrays the intricate challenges of this late-life transition capturing the struggle to adapt to an institutional setting with whatever cheer could be mustered. Each day was a new adventure pretending all is well for her children trying to make conversation through masks and faulty hearing aids and the anticipation of a dinner that might just might be flavorful.</p><p><br></p><p>Butler's funny honest account brings a welcome and necessary perspective to the inevitable moment when we end one chapter and begin whatever comes next. </p>