BECOMING comprises intimate, personal essays, addressing such compelling human themes and challenges as Growing Up, Mothers, Expectations, Money, Meaning and Purpose...  Each essay is a doorway, and reflection questions open and invite us into our own journeys.  It is about maximizing the memorable moments in our lives.

Shall We Dance?

Life for me is, on good days, a wild and gently rhythmic dance.  Moreover, I believe we are danced by life and are not, as we often pridefully assume, the directors of the dance.

I haven’t always seen it this way.  One evening, over twenty years ago, it was getting dark as I was driving home from a workshop with Robert, an acquaintance and fellow student.  That drive became a turning point in my life...

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