What was it like to be a teen-age girl growing up in the 60s? Amid political turbulence, social reforms and the Vietnam war, adolescence was challenging enough for a middle-class Wisconsin girl named Ann. Gifted with imagination and the desire to write, she used her diary as a coping mechanism on her path to womanhood. Stepping Forth is Ann (Schumacher) Ulrich Miller's memoir of those agonizing, self-conscious, embarrassing years of adolescence, when ... her brothers gets deployed to Vietnam ... a beloved grandmother dies ... first crushes begin to surface ... bad hair days in high school ......