Darla Durand is a Canadian writer based in Alberta who writes about the quiet turning points in women's lives — the moments that don't make headlines but change everything.

Her debut memoir Just a Sip came out of a simple, honest question she asked herself one ordinary evening. Not a crisis. Not a rock bottom. Just a woman in her early sixties who decided to pay attention.

When she's not writing, she's working a full-time job, being a grandmother to two little girls who completely own her heart, and figuring out — like a lot of women her age — what the next chapter looks like.

Just a Sip is her first book. It won't be her last.