I love this concept of “normal plus” and I loved this book! The main character is wrestling with her mortality as she faces her cancer diagnosis. Her husband offers to make all her wildest dreams come true (bucket list): a trip to Machu Picchu, swimming with dolphins, whatever she dreamed of… and she just wanted more normal days, feeling healthy, time with her kids, dinner with friends and they coined the phrase “normal plus”…. And I totally relate!!
I don’t dream of a bucket-list life, I dream of an ordinary plus life. And ordinary day with your family and friends, but finding a way to make it special. Take a cute selfie together, order a fun cocktail at dinner, buy the fancy soap for your daily shower (so it feels like the spa), burn the fancy candle while you work from home… don’t save it!
Life IS the special occassion.
I also think it’s important to reclaim the word plus. I wear plus-size clothing, but what I really want is a plus-sized life, one that is as wide and deep as it is long 💕
The Lefty Writer 