The Audacity Never Ends

I asked Gail Sheehey for an interview. FYI: She is in the same league as Dr. Maya Angelou, in my life, but for different reasons. Just as Maya continues to inspire me, Gail teaches me, about womanhood and life. When I was a young mother, stuck at home 24/7 with four babies, Gail's book Passages gave me perspective and allowed me to enjoy those precious moments with my beloved children. She assured me that the scriptural assertion is true -- "to everything there is a season"-- and that each season was divine in its own right. I knew that when those wonderful days of mothering my little ones was over, I would have a life of my own design. When, at last, I chose to end my miserable first marriage, Gail was there with New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time. She introduced me to the three adulthoods, assuring me that my passage into my second adulthood was natural and would likely produce positive results. Again, she was so right. (P.S. - Helen Keller, Burt Bacharach, Stephen Sondheim, Maya Angelou, Boyd Gaines -- my audacity has enabled me to rub shoulders with these legends in my lifetime.)