Cathy Guisewite writes with sympathy, angst, emotions, anxieties and insecurities...and she touches women all over the world just as she did when writing the "Cathy" comic strip. Overall I enjoyed this book, but I had to push myself during the first half. There are many things that I do not relate to: the multiple shopping trips, the crazy binge eating, the trauma over crepy legs. However, the visits to her parents as she tried to navigate "helping" them age in their home definitely hit me in the heart. As a matter of fact, I fully realized how much I enjoyed this book when the tears started after several of these chapters...so very relatable. I remember how I tried hard to keep my mom's side table by her chair organized- so many small scraps of paper, pens, crocheting needles. I distinctly remember the looks Mom gave me when I was "tidying". She liked her things where she wanted them, not where I thought they were more practical. Transitioning to a caregiver daughter and a "letting go of your kids" mom, Guisewite nails so many of the roller-coaster emotions that bombard each of us in this phase of life.
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