Karen Hatch-Taylor is a poet, a parent, and a survivor. She describes in the verses herein how she met her favorite author online and bridged ten thousand miles to win his heart, and then how she endured first a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor and subsequent surgery, then a battle with cancer and the discovery that her middle child is autistic. Truly her life, told here in her eloquent poetry, has been a mosaic of light and dark moments, of extraordinary pain, extraordinary love, and extraordinary survival against an unimaginable assault of stressful events and dire medical conditions. She...