This is a Love Song

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“This is a love song” is a beautiful homage to the transitions that define us; the hesitant steps of adulting, menopause, the slow unfolding of age, and the constancy of friendship, family, and love.”

— Sehrish Haq, Goodreads

“This book! Prepare to be taken on an open, honest, heart warming nostalgic journey back to your teens, with perfectly described visuals of the daily sights, smells and sounds we lived. “

— Lisa Clark, BookSirens

“The author has an amazing way of capturing the memories and feelings of a generation. Couldn’t put it down and didn’t want it to end.”

— Jennifer Pulczinski, Amazon

Where did the time go? Why does my knee hurt? Wasn’t I just slow dancing in the gym to “Purple Rain” ten minutes ago?

These are the questions I ask myself. This is a Love Song is my answer.

I was one of the lucky Gen Xers who turned fifty in 2020, the year of the Great Plague. In an attempt to keep sane, I kept a series of journals, which got packed with the dishes and the tax files when we moved from Copenhagen to Berlin. There they sat on my desk, gathering dust, while I worked on It’s a Lot to Unpack.

Sometimes, as a writer, you travel backward looking for ideas. And so I went digging through my handwritten pages to see if I could mine for gold. There was a lot of nonsense. There was plenty of self-pity. But there were also the seedlings of what ultimately became This is a Love Song, a collection of essays, thoughts, poems, lists, and playlists. And yes, it includes “Purple Rain.”

This is a Love Song is, at heart, an ode to life after fifty. Like my old cassettes, things are scratchy, come undone, and sometimeeaders find a piece of themselves within its pages as well.