Life rarely unfolds the way we planned.
These essays explore what happens when careers change, parents age, plans fall apart, and new chapters begin unexpectedly.
The stories here are written from the middle of the journey—not from someone who has everything figured out, but from someone learning, rebuilding, and paying attention along the way.
Pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee, and stay awhile.

For most of my life, I believed progress meant having a plan.
Then life did what life often does—it changed the plan.
Over the past several years, I’ve navigated many of the transitions that arrive in midlife: caring for aging parents, grief and loss, career changes, financial uncertainty, health challenges, and the unexpected work of rebuilding a life that no longer looks the way I imagined.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped trying to rush through these seasons and started paying attention to them instead.
Letter from Jen is where I share those observations.
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