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Pull up a chair.

 Honest reflections on caregiving, grief, rebuilding, and beginning again.

 Life rarely unfolds the way we planned.


Here you’ll find reflections on caregiving, home, work, money, grief, and the unexpected process of starting over.


These essays are written from the middle of the journey—not from the other side of it. I’m still learning, rebuilding, and figuring things out as I go.


If you’re navigating a transition of your own, I hope you’ll find something here that makes you feel a little less alone.


Pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee, and stay awhile.

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Weekly reflections on caregiving, midlife transitions, home, work, money, and rebuilding a life that no longer looks like the plan.

About Jen

Portrait of Jen Madden, writer of Letter from Jen, a blog about caregiving, life transitions, grief, and beginning again.

 For most of my life, I believed progress meant having a plan.


Then life did what life often does—it changed the plan.


Over the past several years, I’ve navigated many of the transitions that arrive in midlife: caring for aging parents, grief and loss, career changes, financial uncertainty, health challenges, and the unexpected work of rebuilding a life that no longer looks the way I imagined.


Somewhere along the way, I stopped trying to rush through these seasons and started paying attention to them instead.


Letter from Jen is where I share those observations.


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