She Finally SAT Down: 50 Years of Memory, Musings and Melodrama

MARIBETH SOUTHWORTH celebrated her fiftieth birthday. Irresponsibly. Her children deserted her in pursuit of their education. Selfishly. She finally sat down with a latte, her laptop and some leftovers after work each night, letting her mind wander. Dangerously. Southworth's collection of more than 50 quirky, edgy, in-your-face essays on her life so far, began as a private blog, Fifty and Feisty, and grew out of her readers' enthusiastic reception. Her stories take readers from her childhood, to her years in the workplace, dating and marrying a man she now lovingly calls 'Jack Sprat' (we'll get to that later), raising children and living the typical American multi-tasking, melodramatic dream. Ask her about the 'Jack Sprat' thing and she says, "... no man wants to learn that his wife can't seesaw with him on a playground anymore. I know I'm living a fairy tale, and it isn't 'Sleeping Beauty'." She Finally Sat Down is for those who know that a life can be full of missteps, mayhem and madness, but it's still worth living ... and reading about. Vicariously.