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This book is about one big rollercoaster. It's about a girl who has CP (cerebral palsy) and the challenges she has faced throughout her life. A girl who is lucky to be blessed with people who stood beside her all the way. A girl who tries to do it all and doesn't let her CP get in the way of life. She just goes with it!

With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up. This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires - especially for the children involved.

What do you do when fate hands you a wild daughter? As Micah recounts her struggles to raise a brave daughter and to keep her safe at the same time, she also tells the story of her own sometimes humorous, sometimes harrowing two week solo adventure in the Adirondack Mountains as a teenager. Micah Perks' candid short memoir takes an insightful look at women and the wild, the wildness she experienced as a child on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness, the ways women and wildness are depicted in movies and books.

Welcome to ‘Embracing Grief’ - the podcast that embraces a subject most people avoid- living your best life while riding the waves of grieving a partner. We’re your hosts, Trish and Lori. We are two women, here to share our experiences with losing a spouse as we find a way to embrace the challenges, the changes, the opportunities, the growth, and the wisdom that this life has to offer.

Welcome to ‘Embracing Grief’ - the podcast that embraces a subject most people avoid- living your best life while riding the waves of grieving a partner. We’re your hosts, Trish and Lori. We We are two women, here to share our experiences with losing a spouse and finding a way to embrace the challenges, the changes, the opportunities, the growth, and the wisdom that this life has to offer.