Someday, Now
A Memoir of Family, Reclaiming Possibility, and One Sicilian Summer

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“[Locke] uses her radici (roots) to narrate a powerful story with depth, passion, and meaningful words forged in English with a taste of Italian...The listening experience is at times impressively vivid, accentuated with the healing power of food and travel to sanctuary spaces.”

In Someday, Now, Tembi Locke invites us into the sunlit folds of Sicily in summer, where memory, family, and identity converge. With warmth and grace, she captures the messy, tender art of letting go and finding home again. This audiobook is a balm for the soul—an immersive, beautifully rendered experience that reminds us the greatest gifts come when we meet change with an open heart.

You could see the world as daunting, family as complicated, love as unpredictable... or you could see life the way Tembi Locke does: a perpetual wonder, always unfolding in surprising new layers. Play this audiobook on a plane, on a hike, or in your car, and revel in the joy of not ever really knowing what's next.

A 21st century Under the Tuscan Sun, with all the food, smells, and sights of Italy. Tembi Locke’s Someday, Now explores the healing and empowering effects of one summer in Sicily as she faces an empty nest and settles into a new marriage after years as a widow. It’s a delicious listening experience, with Tembi’s narration interwoven with audio clips she collected throughout her time on the island. A vacation for both body and soul.

Listening to Tembi Locke’s melodic voice share her experiences during a Sicilian summer vacation with her daughter, Zoela, and second husband, Robert, is a delight for any audiophile.

Tembi Locke has done it again. Someday, Now is a breathtaking meditation on motherhood, grief, identity, and the constant evolution of self. With honesty, vulnerability, and grace, she invites us into a season of transition that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. As a mother of three young children who are nowhere close to leaving home yet, I still felt seen in Tembi's words. This is a story for anyone who has loved, lost, and dared to begin again.

Poetic, gentle, wide, and wise as the Tyrrhenian sea in summer, Locke cradles us in this translation of the universal experience of loss and the letting go that is often necessary to growth, love, and living to the fullest. This is a glowing audiobook to cherish in every season of life, particularly for those navigating change and the weaving of timelines--past, present, future--into a fabric of existence defined by resilience, wonder, and awe.

Someday, Now is a beautiful story of motherhood, memory, and the bittersweet art of releasing a child into adulthood. As Tembi reflects on the seasons of life and the relationships that define us, listeners are transported to sun-drenched Sicily, where the myth of Demeter and Persephone echos in the landscape. A meditation on love, Someday, Now is filled with sensual storytelling, pasta and rosemary, ancient crafts and devoted bee keepers, and reminders that every ending in life is also a new beginning.

To listen to this story is to be utterly transported to Sicily: the smell of eucalyptus, the calls of the sparrows, the salty sea air, the hot sun on dust-kissed skin. It is also to be deeply moved by the thoughtful reckonings of a woman on the cusp of transformation. Someday, Now brims with profound meditations about resilience, loss, motherhood, family, community and connection, all against the backdrop of a life-affirming sojourn to a sacred place. As a seeker and a sage, Tembi offers the gift of inspiration and example for how to navigate the changing seasons of our lives and the inevitable shifts that bring change and challenge, renewal and riotous joy. Prepare to be dazzled with wisdom, grace, poignancy and poetry. 

A raw and poignant story documenting that bittersweet time in motherhood between your kids taking flight and the looming empty nest. Sicily holds a special place in my heart and hearing Tembi speak about her time there brought back so many of my own memories. Someday, Now resonated with me on every level!