When the kids were little, I'd often make Little Pear and Cinnamon Cakes from a good ol' Women's Weekly cookbook for babies and toddlers. Such a simple, yummy recipe. Usually gobbled up by kids and adults alike. Over the years, I’ve tweaked the recipe, made it my own. You know how you do. These days I have a version I make so often that all I really need is a pear and I’m good to go. Which feels kinda fitting. Because here I am now in later midlife, young adult kids, second marriage,...

Midlife change doesn’t always arrive loudly. Sometimes it shows up as a quiet knowing you can no longer ignore. A reflection on courage, choice, and building a life that truly fits.

Leaving my marriage - well, my husband - was one of the most difficult and terrifying things I've ever done. I sobbed to my friend Jen 'I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'M SO SCARED'. The sheer terror of the unknown - what would happen to me? what have I just done? What about my kids? - settled within me like a rock. For the next two years, nothing really changed...from the outside. We lived separately under the same roof, less a well thought-out plan, more a reflection of my fear about what...