Stepping on the Blender & Other Times Life Gets Messy

Can you go home again? Go home to the town where you went to college, where your future lay before you, shiny, uncluttered and ready for discovery? Thirty years later, you have three grown children, a marriage and divorce, a successful career to remind you there's less time on the clock and more baggage.

Katherine Snow Smith writes with humor and tenderness about aging, loss and launching the next act in a rich life. It's easy: "Just be sure to consider your whole story, know it's not over yet, get a good therapist and pack some L'Oréal root cover-up."