We’ve Decided To Go in a Different Direction: Essays

After spending 20 years as a successful casting director, Sanchez suddenly lose her dream job at the same time her beloved father was diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s during the pandemic. These events caused her to realize that her job was her core identity, and she was now rudderless and lost. Forced to parent her parents while supervising her children’s online schooling, Sanchez was often mistaken for the nanny or invisible when out with her husband, actor Max Greenfield. She writes about her experiences as she morphs from high-powered executive working mom to stay-at-home homemaker. Her entertaining essays cover everything from breaking into the entertainment industry, becoming adept at both finding the perfect performer and breaking the bad news to the rejected, to the ups and downs of her relationship with Greenfield and her struggles with motherhood. Sanchez is both funny and honest (her body’s reaction to leaving her children at camp without telling them their dog is dying leads to publicly soiled pants).