"Potential means nothing without the realization of one's own abilities".

This book was born when I tried to put myself into what I considered a nightmare situation. "What if I got divorced, had no job, and had to move back in with my mother?"

A memoir which centers around an attempted suicide beneath the wheels of a train and the effort to find truth and beauty and meaning and success and revelation in the aftermath of this traumatic event...

Over six million people in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The average person takes seven years before getting help for OCD.

This was a storm. It wasn’t a warm sun shower on a spring afternoon. It wasn’t the soft drizzle of winter rain. It was the drenching downpour of a tropical cyclone.

The real reason to read this book is to experience excellent fool-proof Italian recipes (they all have been cooked hundreds of times in this one family).