New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster
has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement.
From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of
Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her
generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it
all—sometimes with disastrous results…
Sure Jen
has made mistakes. She spent all her money from a
high-paying job on shoes, clothes, and spa treatments. She
then carried a Prada bag to the unemployment office. She
wrote a whole memoir about dieting…but didn’t lose weight.
She embarked on a quest for cultural enlightenment that only
cemented her love for John Hughes movies and Kraft American
Singles. She tried to embrace everything Martha Stewart,
while living with a menagerie of rescue cats and dogs.
(Glitter…everywhere.)
Mistakes are one thing;
regrets are another.
After a girls’ weekend in
Savannah makes her realize that she is—yikes!—middle-aged
(binge watching is so the new binge drinking), Jen decides
to make a bucket list and seize the day, even if that means
having her tattoo removed at one hundred times the cost of
putting it on.
From attempting a juice cleanse to
studying Italian, from learning to ride a bike to starting a
new business, and from sampling pasta in Rome to training
for a 5K, Jen is turning a mid-life crisis into a mid-life
opportunity, sharing her sometimes bumpy—but always
hilarious—attempts to better her life…again.