Kari Lizer, AREN'T YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE?

Kari Lizer, AREN'T YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE?

Kari: It's a collection of essays. There's diversity there, but a lot of them are about my coming to terms with the loss of my identity as a mom, more or less, coming to this place in my life where all three of my kids are out of the house and what it meant. I had stopped working as hard as I was working too. Things sort of came to a screeching halt all of a sudden. My house was empty. I didn't have three kids who I was constantly nagging about getting into college, up in the morning, getting their homework done, figuring out what they were going to be and do with the rest of lives, and also running television shows, working on television shows, writing scripts, trying to do that, sell things. All of that sort of ended all at the same time. I found myself in this void of purpose. I started writing about it and this no-man's-land time of life. Also, it's the same time when my parents are aging. That added to the equation of, who am I and what I am doing with myself? I wrote stories about it.