Wish List

[close] There comes a time in every woman's life when she realizes that the dreams she held as a girl are growing farther away in the rearview mirror. What can you do to make those childhood ambitions a reality? Join Susan Campbell Cross as she tackles that very question in The FabYOUList, a funny and endearing story of one suburban soccer mom's madcap adventures. Cross's declaration, "There are so many things I thought I would have done by now!" led her to reflect about what exactly those things were. Pen and paper in hand, she composed a "wish I would have done" list. Fly on the trapeze, skinny dip, learn to surf, get a paid acting job, go church shopping, take guitar lessons, run a 5K, and become Googleable, were just the tip of the iceberg. Ironically, the list ended with #40, write a book. That book is The FabYOUList: List it, Live it, Love Your Life. The explanation about how numbers 1 through 39 came to be on Cross's list, and the hilarious ways that went into crossing them off, is the entertaining and inspiring theme of this heartfelt memoir. The reader is invited along on every escapade as Cross ventures outside her comfort zone and into the adventure of her life, ultimately coming face-to-face with what she discovers has been her biggest obstacle all along: herself.

Writer, actor, and mom Susan Campbell Cross is a lifestyle editor of Shape magazine and contributing lifestyle editor of Star and OK! magazines. She is also a contributor to The Daily Muse, HuffPost Women, and Forbes Woman. In addition she has her own blog, Secrets of a Suburban Soccer Mom. She lives in Hidden Hills, California, with her husband of twenty years and their three children and four dogs. [close]