A Potted Oasis

I am a mid-forties female, who a little over a year ago packed up my single life in the city and moved in with my mom in a little seaside town. Trying to figure out what comes next, and more importantly, what I want to come next. I still have my office/desk job that I’ve had for the past 20 years, but is it really “what I want to be when I grow up?” Is there something that I’m supposed to be doing that will better fit for me and helpful to others? Do Is still want to live the dreams I had for my life when I was in my twenties, or have they changed? So, this website is going to be a bit of soul searching, a bit of memoir reading, in general trying to find myself, now at 40-something. Which feels like a very weird place to be, because wasn’t I supposed to do all this “finding myself” in my twenties? Am I even old enough for a midlife crisis? Come along for the ride, while I discuss the books I’m reading, the philosophies I’m discovering, the movies, memoirs, websites that I find have something important to teach – something I could learn from. And please join in the discussion! I’m hoping this website creates a safe space for conversation, sharing ideas, learning from each other, and in general just knowing we’re not alone at this point in our lives.