Carve Your Way: Finding Yourself After 40 (Expanded Edition)

Same dream. The whole story.

Carve Your Way: Finding Yourself After 40 (Expanded Edition) is the full-length edition of Patricia Rhoades' dream map — the complete story told at novel length, every road walked in full.

Where the Map Edition charts the course, this edition lives it: the silence of the empty house and what it feeds; the Water Road through all seven board sports — the therapy, the falls, the Achilles, the three weeks, and the day the neighbors who laughed at the carpet pop-ups watched her make the turn at the lip of the bowl and come out still standing; the family the dream gathered instead of pushed away — a daughter raised in summer water, a nephew who found the one place they can stay for hours, a husband back on a skateboard after all those years; the Store Road, the Handoff Road, the Mission Road through local churches, and the Giving Road; the anchor off a Florida shore at twenty-five and the kneeboard still waiting to be settled. Why not.

A full-length book — over 77,000 words — with chapter-end Map Notes and the 30-day first-steps plan. No money down to begin. No one's permission required. Written by Patricia Rhoades: "I turned 40, and this is my dream, and I am living it."

This is the Expanded Edition. The Map Edition ($27) is the same dream in its compact 51-page form. Digital PDF download.