How to want more without feeling guilty for new moms: honest answers for Derry

Derry, NH · a reader's page

There's a story Derry tells about itself — successful, settled, safe. This page is about the sentence after the period.

And this is Derry: a Manchester NH-area community of strivers and settlers — very often the same person, on the same Tuesday And that's precisely where gratitude and growth start arguing — politely.

🎧 A note for Derry readers (read for you)

“Ambition is not ingratitude.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

What it looks like from the inside of Derry

Nothing is wrong. That's the problem — nothing has asked anything of you in a while.
You feel behind even when you're ahead, and ahead even when you've stopped moving.
You keep waiting for a sign, ignoring that 'is this it?' keeps showing up like one.

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Derry you usually pass through — a park bench, a parking lot, a quiet street — and do absolutely nothing for ten minutes.
Whatever your mind keeps circling back to without a screen in front of it is the thing this book would tell you to look at.

Gratitude looks backward with warmth. Growth looks forward with nerve. A full life uses both sets of eyes.

The book's third path

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency refuses the two usual endings — get rich or get zen. Instead it argues for a third: keep your gratitude, keep your nerve, and let the two raise each other.

Questions Derry readers ask

Can I read it in one sitting? Most readers do a chapter a night; the book is 239 pages and designed for busy people who read in real life, not ideal life.

Is it good for a book club? Very — discussion questions come with it, and the 'where have you confused gratitude with settling?' prompt alone powers an hour.

Don't just nod — read the whole argument

This page is a doorway. The book is the room: honest chapters on comfort, comparison, ambition, and what to do this month. Kindle $0.99 · Paperback $14.99.

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