Coping with Transition : Men, Motherhood, Money, and Magic - Memoirs from the Lives of Professional Women

Fifteen professional women share transitions that taught them to make lemonade from lemons in a fast changing world of men, motherhood, money, and magic. Some travelled over V rocky paths of parental neglect, failure to find a mate "on schedule," discord over having children, and lonely widowhood. In their journeys toward the higher and better, they sometimes found turf wars and conflicts between career and kids. Their voices convey varying emotions: wry humor in a birthday rant, laughter and sensuality as a romance is rekindled, edginess about retirement and searing anguish over a mysterious death. Magic appears in a well-chosen wardrobe to conceal childhood wounds, a sparkling insight in Northern Italy, a teen transformed from duckling to a somewhat cynical swan, and a spiritual thread that draws a single attorney into international adoption. The stories reach out and connect, like clinking glasses, acknowledging pain while celebrating real life. Book jacket.