Welcome to What’s Your Blue Sky?

You’ve spent your life taking care of everyone else. Maybe it’s finally time to ask what YOU want.

Marriage. Kids. Careers. Caregiving.

For years, you’ve been the one surviving, managing, showing up, and taking care of what needed to be done.

And somewhere along the way, you may have ended up on the back burner of your own life.

Maybe you sense there’s something more waiting for you, but you don’t know how to start.

That’s why I created What’s Your Blue Sky?

This isn’t a midlife crisis brand. It’s a midlife clarity brand. There’s a difference.

I’m not here to sell you a fantasy. I’m here because I lived it — and I know it’s possible.

“To have self-confidence, seeing yourself clearly & liking what you see, to have that kind of feeling that makes you give the most & get the most out of life.”

I wrote those words at 19 years old. It took me another 40 years to actually live them.

I Spent 35 Years Making Myself Smaller

Not all at once. Slowly — the way these things happen. A dream filed away here. A need unspoken there. By the time I understood what had happened, I was standing in an empty house holding a broom, staring at a 65-inch wreath still hanging from the vaulted ceiling like it had been waiting for someone to remember it existed.

I knocked it down. It hit the floor and exploded into a cloud of dust.

And I thought: that wreath is me.

I was 60 years old. I had just sold the house I’d lived in for 30 years. I was newly divorced after a 35-year marriage. I had lost over 100 pounds. I had rebuilt my finances, gone back to work, and quietly — over six years — planned my way to freedom while everything around me was still on fire.

I didn’t wait for perfect circumstances. I built my life while everything was still burning.

More About Cathie

When I’m not writing, you’ll find me with earbuds in — I’m an audiobook and music lover, and a good song can crack me open faster than almost anything else.

Travel is next on my list. I’ve spent years taking care of logistics for everyone else’s life — I’m ready to finally go somewhere just because I want to.

I still believe in random acts of kindness. Not as a hashtag. As a practice. This world needs it more than ever, and I refuse to stop believing that one small gesture can change someone’s entire day.

And one more thing — I’m about to become a grandmother to twins. I can’t think of a better reason to build a life worth showing up for.