This book fulfills my wish to bring awareness, hope, at times humor, and an understanding of the challenges we all face in life; to let the reader know that we are all in this together; that everyone has a story just as funny or sad as yours and mine. Like many others, I have faced and survived the challenges life has thrown at me (abandonment, health issues, raising children, divorce, different careers, discrimination, sexual harassment, rejection and child abuse). I believe I have emerged a better person and now seek to share, especially with younger generations, my lessons of life.