Welcome to the Midlife Anti-Hero Community

No shoulds or expectations, but this post is a good place to start.

Welcome! I’m happy you’re here.

I write this newsletter to challenge the unrelenting and often conflicting messages aimed at midlife women—you should do this and you should be that. I’ve had enough of this should, haven’t you?

In my mid-50s, I moved to Vermont, hired a life coach, and quit a three-decade marketing career, intending to reinvent myself—to …