memoir

Living Vs Surviving Author: Alenka Vrecek Time often heals, but it also takes away choices, opportunities, dreams. What we once promised ourselves we would do slowly becomes inconvenient, uncomfortable, improbable, then impossible. Finally, we let go, citing maturity, convenience, consequences, responsibility. At fifty-four, Alenka is facing this reconciliation head-long and she recounts it in She Rides: Chasing Dreams Across California and Mexico. As she sees it, there are two choices: to give into the ravages of a treacherous body after a horrifying head-on confrontation with cancer or to strike out and live her dream – dangers, challenges, and horrified family be [...]