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Room For Error: A 42-Year-Old Domestic Virgin's Guide to First-Time Marriage and Childless Stepparenting
One day you’re a party of one with a perfectly curated life. The next, you’re a party of four in a home with a "preloaded playlist of chaos."
Courtney spent forty years as an "unopened antique"—neat, self-reliant, and safely tucked in her box. Then, at forty-two, she did the she got married for the first time and became an overnight stepparent to a teenager and a twenty-two-year-old.
In this hilariously raw memoir, Courtney navigates a new way of living with people who think food only exists if it’s a bag of chips. From fast-forwarded domesticity and travel volleyball schedules to the soul-crushing realization that she is now a "guest star" in her own life, she tackles the specific shame of being a beginner when the world expects you to be an expert.
Room for Error is a survival guide for the late bloomers, the childless stepparents, and anyone who has ever felt like they’re at the starting line while everyone else is finishing the race. It is a story about trading "Pura Vida" freedom for a townhouse, learning to advocate for yourself without sounding like a Disney villain, and discovering that while you have lost all control, you might have finally found where you belong.
Because if you’re forty-two and just now learning how to let someone into your heart (and your bed), you aren’t late. You’re just in your own first chapter.
Courtney spent forty years as an "unopened antique"—neat, self-reliant, and safely tucked in her box. Then, at forty-two, she did the she got married for the first time and became an overnight stepparent to a teenager and a twenty-two-year-old.
In this hilariously raw memoir, Courtney navigates a new way of living with people who think food only exists if it’s a bag of chips. From fast-forwarded domesticity and travel volleyball schedules to the soul-crushing realization that she is now a "guest star" in her own life, she tackles the specific shame of being a beginner when the world expects you to be an expert.
Room for Error is a survival guide for the late bloomers, the childless stepparents, and anyone who has ever felt like they’re at the starting line while everyone else is finishing the race. It is a story about trading "Pura Vida" freedom for a townhouse, learning to advocate for yourself without sounding like a Disney villain, and discovering that while you have lost all control, you might have finally found where you belong.
Because if you’re forty-two and just now learning how to let someone into your heart (and your bed), you aren’t late. You’re just in your own first chapter.
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 16, 2026
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