Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares

Her exploits range from visiting a nude beach with her seventy-five-year-old mother in tow to going on a raid with a vice squad and SWAT team to crashing a wedding (where she accidentally catches the bouquet). While finding her courage in the most unlikely of circumstances, Sherry ultimately finds herself. Fighting midlife inertia, Sherry Stanfa-Stanley stares down a year of fear through The 52/52 Project: a year of weekly new experiences designed to push her far outside her comfort zone. For midlifers, fatigued parents, and anyone who may be discontent with their life and looking to shake things up, try new things, or just escape, Finding My Badass Self is proof it's never too late to reinvent yourselfand that the best bucket list of all may be an unbucket list.

. She writes about her midlife escapades and other topics on Facebook (The 52 at 52 Project) and also blogs at sherrystanfa-stanley. An empty nester after raising Son #1 and Son #2, she now indulges a menagerie of badly behaved pets. By day, Sherry attempts to respectably represent her alma mater as a communication director at The University of Toledo. Sherry Stanfa-Stanley is a writer, humorist, and squeamish adventurer

If you love funny, smart, brave writing, you will love this book. Honest, revealing, and warm-hearted, Stanfa-Stanley gives her readers a whole new way to put ‘life’ into midlife crisis.”—Gina Barreca, syndicated columnist and author of Not That I’m Bitter and If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?“Kiss your comfort zone good-bye! Sherry Stanfa-Stanley challenges herself on the eve of her fifty-second birthday to shake up the status quo of a middle-age life. In