I would have given the first half of this book four stars. I felt inspired by Kenison's forging through large changes in her life with confidence and some degree of optimism. I feel the older I get the more frightened of change I become. She helped me to think outside of that fear for a moment.
Later in the book Kenison's writing became too monotonous - writing ad nauseam in a self assessment, minutiae laden, universal truth sort of way. Too many pages that said the same thing again and again. Although I must admit some of her "universal truth" perspectives resonated with me in a way that makes me feel grateful to have read the book.

My children are still small, but adolescence looms nearer than we ever care to imagine. Adolescence, and early adulthood, that takes our children into the new realm of life outside of our own. There will come a day when I let my last child go off to find his own way through adulthood and Kenison has given me insights into how to do that with some amount of grace.