This Wasn't the Plan

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She thought midlife would be calm. Restful. Maybe even a little indulgent.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Instead she's restocking the fridge for grown kids juggling prescriptions for aging parents and trying to remember who she was before she became everyone else's unpaid manager therapist and emotional support human.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with razor-sharp wit and raw honesty </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Wasn't the Plan</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a hybrid memoir of essays and reflections that dives deep into the grief of a life that didn't unfold as promised-and the unexpected freedom that comes from rewriting your role.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the slow fade of a mother's memory to the simmering rage of an empty nest that never emptied this book speaks to every woman who's held a family together with coffee care and quiet resentment-and finally asks the question: When is it my turn?</span></p><p></p>