Chapter 5
A few months later, I was a lot less satisfied with desserts and . . . well, everything in my life. I’d become closer and closer to Aubrey, who had definite plans for every detail of her life—too much so, really. I didn’t want to be that ordered, but talking to her made me realize that I had shortchanged myself. She hadn’t meant to give me a wake-up call, but she had. Now I needed to figure out what to do with that epiphany. It was one thing to realize that you needed to change your life. It was another to figure out how to do it. Making any real change seemed huge and overwhelming. Even figuring out where to start seemed like a task I couldn’t begin. I wanted to, but I didn’t know how.
I went to look at my design notebooks. If I was going to get to a new place, I’d need new de
